Re-installing Musescore when upgrading computer
What should I do to be able to continue to edit - if necessary - existing Muse Score files. Of course i have PDFs of important things; but it would be better practice to safeguard the .musx files; How do I do this:
1 Where are they? 2 What procedure should In follow? 3 On re-installation, how will the new Musescore 3.0 find them?
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what are .musx files? .mscx? .mscz?
Whatever, reinstalling MuseScore won't touch any scores you may have on your computer.
In reply to what are .musx files? .mscx?… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks, Jo Jo. I mean the latest files which MuseScore 3.0 has created. I think they are - as you say - .mscz ; .mscx seem to be kind of system files. So you just save all your hard disk to a secure location, change the hard disk, re-load the content removed, and then re-install the individual programs?
In reply to Thanks, Jo Jo. I mean the… by MoverleySmith
Store all score files (mscx, mscz, pdf ...) just like all other files you want to keep in some save place
In reply to Store all score files (mscx,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks it begins to make sense. Thanks as well for your kindness.
In reply to Thanks it begins to make… by MoverleySmith
What kind upgrade are you doing. OS, HDD, CPU? Or a new computer?
In reply to What kind upgrade are you… by bobjp
Hello - HDD and Memory. . .
In reply to Hello - HDD and Memory by MoverleySmith
So backup your files.
In reply to So backup your files. by Jojo-Schmitz
So: (1) Find Muse Score (muse-score-created) files; back them up to an external HDD ;
(1a) Upgrade computer as described;
(2) when reinstall of muse score in rehabilitated computer,
** ensure that these are copied back into the germane Folder i.e.
(the Folder where the newly-installed MuseScore 3.0 has elected to store whatever it will access when it runs?
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Hi Moverley,
1 - Your MuseScore files can be in absolutely whatever folder you want. There is no need at all to put them in the default folder used by MuseScore. You can of course put them in that default folder, it is entirely up to you.
2 - If your files were V2 files, first time you will save them with V3 that will change the format and the new file will be unusable with V2. Depending on your preferences and number of files you can adopt different strategies:
-Put all you current files under a folder called "V2" and save them progressively under a new folder "V3" when you edit them by V3
-keep a shared V2/V3 folder structure (with sub-folders like you want by genre or whatever) and add 'V3' in the name of the file when you save it for the first time from V3
-shared V2/V3 folder structure and just overwrite the V2 file with the V3 version without changing the name (possibly keeping a full copy of all your V2 files version somewhere else (folder archive or something like that) "in case of")
-...
3 - disks are breakable, computer hardware in general also ... You should NEVER keep only a single copy of your files ... Either copy them on a USB stick/disk, or use a cloud service, or have a small home NAS and put all your file on there. This is what I have: a small home NAS with two disks copies one of another, my files are NOT on my different laptops. So I can access them from whatever computer is on my home WIFI. If a disk is broken I lose nothing (unless the other one breaks also in the days waiting delivery of a replacement disk)
Chose whatever solution you prefer, but I know lot of people crying after loosing years of work / photo's because they didn't realise that a single disk in a computer could break.
In reply to Hi Moverley, 1 - Your… by frfancha
Excellent advice. Will review it very thoroughly before taking action. Michael Berkeley lost, about 30 years ago, an entire opera - Jane Austen - in pre-digital days: stolen from his car; he never got it back
In reply to Excellent advice. Will… by MoverleySmith
Eben 30 years ago computers existed and the 3 golden rules on how to deal with data:
§1 Create backups on a regular basis
§2 Create backups on a regular basis
§3 Create backups on a regular basis
In reply to Eben 30 years ago computers… by Jojo-Schmitz
100 GOTO 1000
200 REM BACKUP ROUTINE
210...
220...
230...
290 RETURN
1000 FOR X = 1 TO 3
1010 CALL BACKUP
1020 NEXT X
In reply to 100 GOTO 1000 200 REM BACKUP… by underquark
Yep ;-)