cannot open old version
I tried to open a score which I spend a huge amount of time capture some time ago, and I got the following message. I think this sort of problem could be avoided if the saved score automatically included the music-xml information also. That way if some future version becomes incompatible, then at least it could fall back on reading the music-xml, rather than losing 100% of the work. Or perhaps if there was a way to tell muse core, always ALSO save the music-xml file every time I save the .mscx or .mscz file.
Is there a way to salvage my work, or do I need to completely start over from scratch?
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Here is the version information at the top of the file
Sorry I can't figure out how to correctly paste xml text into this text window.
In reply to Here is the version… by jim.newton.562
To try to work around this, I saved a new version to see what the header looks like.
it contains museScore version "3.02", programVersion 3.6.2, and programRevision 3224f34.
So I copied the same header into my old file, and when I try to open it, muse score still thinks it was saved with a developer version. How does muse score decided that a file was saved using a developer versioN?
In reply to Here is the version… by jim.newton.562
I found the page https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/musescore-nightlies/macos/3x/stable/
Which version could I try to be able to open the file and save to music-xml ?
museScore version="3.00"
programVersion 3.0.0
programRevision 53d4ad2
In reply to I found the page https://ftp… by jim.newton.562
That specical version used to be there too, but is no longer. See below...
That's the danger of having worked with a development version (and you have been told about that at the time, when downloading it).
There used to be a 'compatibility' develpment version for exactly this purpose (cryptically named "MuseScoreSpecial-2018-09-20-0904-master-c07ed54-300-file-format"), it is no longer available for download unfortunatley, but I still have a copy on my computer.
Here's your score opened and resaved with that version.
In reply to That's the danger of having… by Jojo-Schmitz
Great! thanks. I think I have lots of file in this state. How can I get a copy of this compatibility version?
In reply to Great! thanks. I think I… by jim.newton.562
The copy or that development build I have is for Windows, else I'd offer it to you.
IIRC your only the 2nd person asking for this, I believe the other was asking that a few weeks ago, must have been on the 4th July (or the day before), as that is when I unpacked that version on my new PC (after having dug it up from my old PC's hard drive)
In reply to The copy I have is for… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hi Jojo, would you mind re save-3-ing the rest in this sequence? That would help me a lot.
In reply to Hi Jojo, would you mind re… by jim.newton.562
Here you go
In reply to Here you go by Jojo-Schmitz
And here as a fully converted 3.6.2 version
In reply to And here as a fully… by Jojo-Schmitz
That's great. Thanks.