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i lost an unfinished arrangement because i accidentally saved the piece into musescore three because i accidentally had it open, is there anyway to get it back? everytime i open it, its a completely empty score
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https://musescore.org/en/node/289899
It's not clear what you mean by "accidentally saved the piece into musescore three". MuseScore 3 is a program, not a place in your computer you can save files to. If you saved you file, it is into a folder on your computer, not into a program. So whatever folder you saved the score into, that's the folder where you can now open your score from.
If you mean, you took a score created in MuseScore 4, opened it using MuseScore 3, ignored the warning that it was not incompatible, saw it was empty, then saved the file anyhow, In that case, you'd need to restore the previous version of the file from the backup MuseScore created.
Or if you mean something else, you can probably recover a previous version from backups made automatically by your OS, such as via OneDrive on Windows or Time Machine on macOS.
Please explain in more detail what happened, and we can try to help further.
In reply to It's not clear what you mean… by Marc Sabatella
i did not realize that opening the score in musescore 3 then saving in said program would completely delete everything I wrote, i have been looking all over my mac for a backup file but cannot seem to find anything, I tried to open time machine but it wont go further beyond than i need it to so i have no idea what to do about this, if i have just completely lost the file then that is ok
In reply to i did not realize that… by danielrumery
If you are looking at an empty score (which is what you'd see when attempting to open an MU4 score in MU3 and ignoring the warning that clearly states that it cannot read the file), then indeed when you save, you are now saving that empty score. That's why the warning exists.
Anyhow, the backup file is hidden, so you'll need to enable display of hidden files and folders to find it. It should either be in the same folder as the main file, or a subfolder called "mscbackup" or something like that (depending on which version of MuseScore you were using at the time you last saved the file).