Suddenly it deleted itself
At first I want to say that I am a MuseScore user just for the last few days and I like very much, but I have encountered some problems. (I am using MacBook Pro.)
I have made a few songs. The first problem occured just during my work, when I was writing notes and suddenly the program quitted and left only a empty sheet as a saved backup. I was very angry. I also have a PC, and I had installed MuseScore on my PC and it was much much worse, it quitted every 5 minutes, on Mac it happened just once.
Now, I just wanted to find something in my sheets, so I opened them. At first, I opened Song1, then went out, then I opened Song2, then went out and so on, to number 4. All of my sheets are gone! The files are 4 kb big, I am not happy.
MuseScore is really good, it is free, but it is NOT stable. How do you use it when it crashes so often? I started to like the software, but I guess that this is the tax for MuseScore being free of charge.
I am thinking about trying something else. Can anyone help me out? Have I done something wrong? Do you encounter the same problems?
Thanks for comments.
Peter
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BTW I am using MuseScore 0.9.6 on both computers.
In reply to in addition.. by Melirik
MuseScore is not only free of charge. It's also free like in freedom, the source code is available for everybody.
Regarding your problem, can you attach one of your files? Did you save them (File -> Save) before MuseScore closes?
Did you do something special before MuseScore closes alone?
In reply to MuseScore is not only free of by [DELETED] 5
It might be freedom for some people, but not for me.. while I am not one who can do it :)
I did not have time to save it, I did not know I had to. I did not do anything special, I think.
In reply to It might be freedom for some by Melirik
Can you attach one of your song ?
MuseScore is just like another software. You create a file (File->New), you made modification and you save the file (File->Save).
In reply to Can you attach one of your by [DELETED] 5
Here it is.
In reply to Can you attach one of your by [DELETED] 5
Here it is.
In reply to Can you attach one of your by [DELETED] 5
Another unbelievable thing. I tried to reopen the files, they were all ok. But very interesing thing is that the size of the files (which I opened and which were deleted for few hours) has rapidly lowered. See picture in attachment. I opened the first 4 files, not the last one, and even now the sizes are so small. How is this possible?
In reply to Another unbelievable thing. I by Melirik
To read about the differences between ".mscz" and ".mscx" see [[nodetitle:Export]] in the handbook. It explains the reason for the different file sizes.
Crashes are not normal. If you discover a series of steps that causes MuseScore to crash please report them on this forum.