Music Unexpectedly Deleted
So earlier today I just finished working on one part of my music, which was for first violins. I saved the file and started to work on the second part on another file. When I had to go, I saved that file as well and logged out of my computer. When I reopened Musescore, my file for the first violins mysteriously vanished. I tried checking the trash bin, all my files, all my applications, but nothing came to hand. The only thing that I found was the other file, and nothing else. I am fairly new with using Musescore, so maybe I might've misplaced it somewhere else? I don't know, but I worked for a very long time on my now deleted file and it would be a shame for all the time to get wasted because of this. Any advice? Thank you for understanding.
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Read: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/file-formats-0#msczcomma
and https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
Search in the hidden folders,
Check, in Preferences, the 'Scores' folder path.
In reply to Read: by Shoichi
I looked over there, but there was nothing.
In reply to I looked over there, but by Bleu Frost
Pls. get a copy of ultrasearch (freeware)
http://www.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/
(portable version (.zip) is also possible)
I would do a search of your whole computer for MSCZ files, using whatever facility your OS provides. Presumably you just saved the edited version to a different folder - perhaps using "Save As"? - and for whatever reason you are opening an older version. but if you saved your changes, they have to be there, somewhere.
*Unless* you perhaps made the mistake of using Save As while working on one *part* of a full score, and then compounded that mistake by choosing to overwrite the original score. You should have simply hit "Save", not "Save As", which would have saved the score and all parts together. If this is what you did, then unfortunately your second part has now overwritten the first.
In reply to I would do a search of your by Marc Sabatella
I believe I did just that. Is there any way to fix it?
In reply to I believe I did just that. Is by Bleu Frost
Unfortunately if you explicitly overwrote the file, there probably isn't anything that can be done. Unless you were working in a folders that is automatically backed up with every change, like in Dropbox or Google Drive or Time Machine.