Saved score does not open
Hi,
I've downloaded yesterday ver 0.9.3 for my kids, and they *loved* using it. But I have a problem with my saved scores. When I reopen them, I get a blank page with absolutely nothing. I do not get any error message either.
It seems however, that it did save something, since I can find the file, and it is not empty (about 5k).
One of the files opens well, and I think the difference between this one and the others is, it has a Latin-letters title, and the others have file names and titles in Hebrew letters.
Can it explain this? Is there a way to solve it?
My 7 years old kid worked for hours on a new score, and he is *very* disappointed now.
Please advice,
Thanks,
Jacob
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Can you attach the file for further investigation ?
In reply to Can you attach the file for by [DELETED] 5
Sure. here it is.
Thanks,
Jacob
It is a known issue in 0.9.3. There are quite a few similar reports already. Upgrade your musescore installation to the latest prerelease which you can download from http://prereleases.musescore.org
In reply to It is a known issue in 0.9.3. by Thomas
I've upgraded to rel 1484. It does not seem to help. I still get an empty page.
Is there another release that should work?
Thanks,
jacob
Last night I was just about finished with my score. Since it was late, I saved it with intentions of finishing it up today. When I tried to open it, the tab had the score name but it still diplayed the demo. What could be going on?
In reply to Score won't open by Dan Shaughnessy
I can reproduce this bug. The save failed for some reason i have to investigate. MuseScore leaves a file with a constructed name like msHp3772 in the folder you tried to save the score. Rename this file to something.mscz and try to open it with MuseScore.
This issue has been forwarded to the developer ML.
In reply to Issue send to the developer mailing list by Thomas
Just curious...I had the same problem yesterday...I composed 3 pieces to use this weekend at our Easter Vigil...2 are fine, but the first one I worked on is blank. Is it a lost cause, or will I be able to recover my work?
In reply to Was this resolved? by radiodj55_
What version of MuseScore are you using? What operating system? Are you able to reproduce the steps that caused the score to become blank?
As far as this score it looks like your work is still there. Right click on the attachment below and choose save. See if this version opens on your computer.
In reply to What version of MuseScore are by David Bolton
Yes, your version worked! A couple of things...my original upload was 3.74 kb and your version (which worked, was msc and mscz was 10 times that size!)
I am using 0.9.4 rev 1518
Thanks for the wonderful software by the way.
In reply to Wow it worked! by radiodj55_
As Werner explains below, there is a problem with using the ampersand (&) in file names for compressed files. This should be fixed in the next version of MuseScore.
My version was only larger because it used the uncompressed format. See [[nodetitle:Export]] for more details on the differences between the different types of files.
hi,
same problem with version 0.9.4: half a piano reduction from Bach... sad for me... easier to learn and play for my students :D
copy/rename did nothing
it is the first time i encounter this problem and there are some differences between the blank file and others:
- the original file name and title contain the char &
- the unfinished score contains 10 or 11 pages, first time so much for me
- as a matter of fact, the file is about 20ko, vs 5ko max for others
- 3 voices per staff
- a lot of invisible rests (i noticed a "problem" with invisible "instrument name" at the beginning of some scores, the name re-appears after some manipulations or pdf exportation... does not matter but maybe there is a link)
- as unfinished, the part contains a great number of repeted sharps (i guess some mesures deal with 9 or 12 C sharps... oups)
hope it can help
hope there is a solution to recover the files too
despite this bug, thank you for your work :) MuseScore is wonderful: everything one would in other softwares is in MS !
have a nice day
Vertchouxe
In reply to saved score does not open too by vertchouxe
Vertchouxe, please attach the score you are referring to. Thanks.
In reply to Vertchouxe, please attach the by David Bolton
sorry...
In reply to saved score does not open too by vertchouxe
Here's the recovered file.
In reply to Here's the recovered file. by David Bolton
There was a problem with special characters (&<>\") in filenames for compressed files which is hopefully fixed in rev. 1739.
Thank you for your help :)