Moving installation, soundfonts not applied
I've recently moved my MuseScore installation between laptops, from Windows 10 to Linux Mint.
On Windows, I used MuseScore 4.3 portable. I made sure to back up my "MuseScore4Development" folder from Documents. I don't have access to this computer anymore, but I have the folders for "Scores", "SoundFonts", "Plugins", "VST3", etc.
On Linux, I have a close-to-latest AppImage. I ran MuseScore once to create the "MuseScore4" folder in Documents, then I moved my backup there.
Now when I open one of those projects, the sounds for each instrument have been reset to the defaults. I expected them to remember the relative paths to the SoundFonts and VST3 folders, but I guess that's not supported.
I'm wondering if I can edit a .mscz file directly to recognise the new folder layout or something. I don't want to change every instrument manually because I have a lot of projects, and some of them have specific VST settings applied, etc.
Would that be possible? Surely the paths are stored somewhere.
Comments
VST is not (officially) supported on Linux. (and Windows VST's do not work on Linux, unless you want to use Wine).
The standard location for VST3 :
-on Windows: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
-on Linux: $HOME/.vst3/ or /usr/lib/vst3/ or /usr/local/lib/vst3/
Soundfonts (sf2/3) are under ~/Documents/MuseScore4/SoundFonts. Anything in there should be available in MuseScore.
You can of course change folders in Preferences/Folders/