DELETING MUSESCORE 4

• Jul 3, 2023 - 03:57

Multiple files that were created in musescore 3 have been, without my permission taken out of 3 and transferred to musescore 4, and some have been corrupted. This appears to be random. i am comfortable with musescore 3 and want to delete musescore 4 so this doesn't continue to happen.
Please advise.

Ira Cantor duo for violin and viola 7 2.mscz


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Nonsense, very surely notr without your permission, Mu4 wanrs about overwriting an existing score, you must have ignored that warning, which is consoidered givin permission.

That score stems from 3.6.2 (read: got last saved with that) and is corrupt:

Measure 8, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/8; Found: 60/96
Measure 9, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/8; Found: 60/96
Measure 10, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/8; Found: 60/96

Very certainly Mu4 didn't touch this

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Thank you indeed very much for your reply, as my goal is simply to fix this if possible and prevent it from happening in the future. This has now occurred with about 5 pieces. The others were saved in musescore 4, and I was able to save them. This one however is not saved in musescore 4.

1) is there a way to rescue the score? For instance, can I save everything except M 8-10 in a new score, and then write in the notes manually for M8-10?
2) If I would be given a warning, where would I see it? I am very surprised, because since this has happened before leading to corrupt files, I would have been on the lookout for it?
3) Does your note imply that the last time this was saved in MS3 was 4/8? If so this isn't true as I have been working on this piece for the last week, and it was only yesterday that it appeared as a corrupt file.
4) How does a file get corrupted? Is it something that I am doing?

Thanks again for your help.

Ira Cantor

In reply to by isc@steinermed.com

  1. See How to fix a score that contains corruptions.
  2. On opening a score and on saving online in Mu3. On opening and on any saving in Mu4.
  3. No idea what date you saved it, but whenever that was, it sure was MuseScore 3.6.2.
    Edit: it got last saved on 2nd July 2023, 21:57
  4. Good question, if we knew the exact steps, those corruptions would long have been fixed.
    Edit: tuplets and copy/paste are a good canditate

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

i have now come across the comment with multiple older files that I had not touched for months.

Cannot read file C:\Users\User\OneDrive\Desktop\Ira Music files\DUOS\Cello-violin duo 2.mscz:
This score was saved using a newer version of MuseScore.
Visit the MuseScore website to obtain the latest version.

this sure sounds to me that these files, without me being asked or given permission, are automatically being transferred to MS4 from MS3.

If I am not correct, please explain.
I can tell you that this is causing me a lot of work that I did not envision or ask for to get it back into a form of MS3 that I feel comfortable working with.
Ira Cantor

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

I'm concerned that this is going to continue happening ad nauseum. The two recent files that I opened where this occurred were files that I had not looked at for months, and that when I looked in my file, did not originally show a MS4 icon, only a MS3. But when I opened them, it said they were saved in a later version (ie MS4)
Is there a way that I can prevent this.
Couuld I be the only person this has ever happened to???

In reply to by isc@steinermed.com

You are using Windows. In your Documents folder, there are separate folders for MuseScore3 and MuseScore4, and also for older versions if you ever used them.
And in all of them there are subfolders, one of which is called "Scores". This is the default location for saving scores.

If you've opened a MuS 3 file in MuS 4 and just press "Save" in MuS 4, you will still be asked for a location where to save, but by default it is the folder from which you loaded the file. If you confirm the location and file name, you will be asked again that the file already exists and if you want to overwrite it. If you confirm this again, the MuS 3 score will be overwritten in MuS 4 format, even if it is still in the MuS 3 folder. Maybe this is your "automatic migration". You see: there is nothing automatic about it.

In comparison: For example, if you open an existing MuS 3 file with MuS 3, modify it and then press "Save", the modified file will replace the previous one without prompting.

When you open a MuS 3 file with MuS 4, first use "Save As" and navigate to the MuseScore4/Scores folder and save it there! Better yet, copy the files from MuseScore3/Scores to MuseScore4/Scores using Windows Explorer.

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