Problem with saving in Musescore 4
Last night I was working on a piece and remember hitting "save" multiple times to make sure it saved (also I have autosave on) and checked this morning and all the progress I had made was still there. Later in the day, I opened Musescore again and all the progress was gone which doesn't make any sense. I tried to load an autosave and it said "unknown file type". Also, I might have screwed myself over by saving the project with all the progress gone. I'm super annoyed about losing all that work when I remember making a point to save all my progress last night, and it was still there this morning, but now it's gone.
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Change to a temporary folder when you save, close and then restart the program. Reload your score. If your changes are still there, save the file somewhere else. Don't save to the one set in Musescore for now, don't autosave, and don't quick save if using Windows 10 (CTRL+S). If on the other hand your changes are not saved, then stop using Musescore 4 for now or revert to an earlier version.
UPDATE: see https://musescore.org/en/node/352345
In reply to Change to a temporary folder… by FBXOPWKDOIR2
Thanks, I'll try that.
Whenever I end a session, I do a 'Save As' with the next number in the sequence. Like "Song Title 1". Then the next is save Song Title 2. When I'm done, I delete the early one's. Unless I'm up to 20, Then I delete older one's sooner.
I have had trouble saving for roughly a week, and have discovered the problem had nothing to do with Musescore. The problem was that I titled my score with a disallowed character in the title, in this case, a question mark. This is a windows problem in that windows file names cannot contain disallowed characters. Once I got rid of the question mark, Musescore saved perfectly.
In reply to I have had trouble saving… by nancygross419
MuS 3 changes such disallowed characters automatically to the underscore.
For example, if my title is "What's going on?" the saved file is called "What's_going_on_.mscz". Has this changed?
Even though the original post is about half a year old, I would still like to point this out.
About the autosave file: The progress is saved in this file at fixed intervals. If MuseScore crashes and you open MuseScore again, you will be asked if you want to restore the file. It is used for this purpose.
Otherwise, if you want to open an autosave file with MuseScore, you need to rename the file extension to mscz. Then the message "unknown file type" will no longer appear.