Change save location
Quick Question on musescore 4:
If I have set the default save location as my computer and told it not to ask again, is there any way I can now save to the cloud?
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Presuming you're using MuseScore (3 or 4), I'd think any time you elect to save to the cloud, you can make that choice one-off, then saves are to your desired location. Else, if you want to regularly save to the cloud, that may be a configure item you'll have to find and change? From my experience, anytime I save a new score, I'm asked where to put it. There is the possible advantage of always saving locally, then saving to the cloud as a 2nd step.
In reply to Presuming you're using… by Are Jayem
From my experience: (not logged in to musescore.com at any time)
if you click once "Save to cloud", even when cancelling the actual save operation, then every time you choose "save as", the credentials for musescore.com are asked.
This is controlled in the ini file (in Linux: ~/.config/MuseScore/MuseScore4.ini )
lastUsedSaveLocationType=2
if the option is reset to
lastUsedSaveLocationType=1
then no more attempts to save to the cloud are being made anymore.
I did not find any option in the Preferences to control this.
There is a (big) difference between "save to cloud" and "publish to musescore.com"
With the cloud option, you don't have a local copy.
I cannot think of any reason why i would ever want this.
See Musescore.com terms: [...]No warranties regarding the service[...]
In reply to From my experience: (not… by graffesmusic
OK thanks, I was just having some issues with the save location as I've got a new drive on my device and was struggling to set it, so I thought cloud would be easier
In reply to From my experience: (not… by graffesmusic
Same on Windows11: there is no UI option to revert the "don't ask again" decision regarding cloud or local storage. Even resetting the preferences does not clear the flag. Reverting to factory settings of course does, but it kills all your custom settings etc, so this is not the way to go.
Sounds like a bug to me....
lastUsedSaveLocationType=22 = cloud; 1 = local
when set to 1 you can still save to cloud via the menu option, regardless of
shouldAskSaveLocationType=false- but once you confirmed LocationType 2 there is no way backIn reply to Same on Windows11: there is… by the_mnbvcx
#343408: no UI option to reset shouldAskSaveLocationType, thus unable to save locally
In reply to #343408: no UI option to… by the_mnbvcx
Once you choose "Save to cloud", but you cancel the operation, every time you choose 'save as' or 'save to cloud', you are being asked to login to musescore.com. The 'save as' option is unusable.
There is no way you can stop this, except changing the ini file.
In reply to Once you choose "Save to… by graffesmusic
And when you do login, there is no way to logout.
Except deleting the cred.dat file
Which also means that, if someone can steal the cred.dat file (possibly in combination with ini file cloud "clientId"), he would have access the account. Once you login, your credentials are stored.