Corrupted file won't open

• Jun 28, 2023 - 01:37

I was working on a score (it's a very simple, silly project) and trying to adjust the voltas to make it clear when the final repeat starts (for some reason adding a coda wasn't working for me) and the project kept crashing. Not sure where to find the autosave. Every time I try opening the file, MuseScore crashes. Please help me find/correct the corrupted measure so I can finish this? Thank you!

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moose - better.mscz	132.44 KB

Comments

HildeK

• Jun 28, 2023 - 06:58

I don't know why MuS 4 crashes.
Using v. 3.6.2 it opens the mscx (o.k., I'd some problems with the measure repeat sign in the drums) and I noticed that the repeat list of the volta is specified wrong.
For the first volta you should specify "1,2" and for the second "3". And the measure properties of m. 17 should have '3' for the 'Play count'.

See my corrections done in MuS 3.6.2. Maybe you need to reformat the title block.

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moose - better_3.6.2.mscz	33.69 KB

Elise Brown

• Jun 28, 2023 - 14:35

Thank you so much for correcting! Next time this happens I'll try opening in an earlier version to correct those kinds of errors.

Marc Sabatella

• Jun 28, 2023 - 16:37

FWIW, your score opens with no errors in 4.1, due to be released next week. So it looks like whatever bug caused the crash, is fixed. No corruption is reported either. You can grab the beta from the Announcements forum.

For future reference, the autosave probably would be useful here - it's going to be almost identical to the actual score except it might contain the last few minutes of editing. But you can access it by enabling hidden files/folders in your OS, then looking for files ending in ".autosave" int he same folder as your score. Probably more likely to be useful would be the backup, also hidden, look for the ".mscbackup" folder.

HildeK

• Jun 28, 2023 - 16:45

Is it possible that the missing entries in the repeat list caused this error?

Marc Sabatella

• Jun 28, 2023 - 16:39

Also, if you're having adding the DS(DC) al Coda / To Coda / Coda combination (be sure to add all three elements - it won't work with only one or two), feel free to start a new thread asking for help on that, explaining what you are doing and what goes wrong when you do.

Baby.face_ashley

• Dec 3, 2024 - 18:24

I’m trying to open this file but it won’t open at all

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frontin 4.mscz	1005 bytes

Jojo-Schmitz

• Dec 3, 2024 - 19:28

It does ipen in(in Mu3) but is empty.
Here's all the content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<museScore version="3.02">
  <programVersion>3.6.2</programVersion>
  <programRevision>3224f34</programRevision>
  <Score>
    <LayerTag id="0" tag="default"></LayerTag>
    <currentLayer>0</currentLayer>
    <Division>480</Division>
    <Style>
      <Spatium>1.74978</Spatium>
      </Style>
    <showInvisible>1</showInvisible>
    <showUnprintable>1</showUnprintable>
    <showFrames>1</showFrames>
    <showMargins>0</showMargins>
    <metaTag name="arranger"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="composer"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="copyright"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="creationDate">2022-08-27</metaTag>
    <metaTag name="lyricist"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="movementNumber"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="movementTitle"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="originalFormat">xml</metaTag>
    <metaTag name="platform">Apple Macintosh</metaTag>
    <metaTag name="poet"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="source"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="translator"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="workNumber"></metaTag>
    <metaTag name="workTitle"></metaTag>
    </Score>
  </museScore>

Marc Sabatella

• Dec 3, 2024 - 20:29

Same result opening in MU4 - an empty page. Which makes sense, since the file indeed contains no music or text or anything else.