Lost All Scores After a Mac Migration and an Update
The sequence of events that lead to this juncture:
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Use Musescore for two years on Mac Air 1.
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Migrate my user, files, and my applications to Mac Air 2 from Mac Air 1
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Open Musescore on Mac Air 2 and naively update Musescore without ensuring that all my files transferred.
-It is worth noting that I was prompted with a "do you want to replace old Musescore" box, which I assumed was par for the updating course. I personally think this is my error. -
Open the updated Musescore several hours later only to realize that only .mscz files that I downloaded from the internet (and kept in my downloads folder) on Mac Air 1 remain. The things I created myself are not to be found anywhere on either computer or the cloud, either in .mscz or .mscx form. (I checked both trash cans, too).
Is this due to an error I made in migrating from the old computer or updating Musescore? Is there anyway to get them back? The only thing I wanted to really transfer were my scores and iCloud setup, so I'd be willing to undo my migration if that would help. I'm more of a Windows guy--I don't have a whole lot of experience with Mac directories and the such--so I have no doubt that there is another crevice to search.
I know this probably seems like a titan problem, but any help would be so greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Comments
If you don't copy your scores from Mac Air 1 to Mac Air 2 they won't be there. MuseScore installation or upgrade would never overwrite them.
In reply to If you don't copy your… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for clearing that up about the update! It's nice to get that out of the way.
Indeed, if you copied the files, they are there, if you did not, they aren't. If you believe you copied the files, it could simply be that you are looking for them in the wrong location, but without more information about how you believe you copied them, it's hard to advise further. So, you can explain step 2 in more detail? What exactly did you do to "migrate"?
In reply to Indeed, if you copied the… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks to all for the replies! Migration is the process in which a Mac computer will (theoretically) take everything from one computer and put it on the other. In the process, based on my understanding, things are cut or moved instead of copied. After undergoing the migration, there isn't documents of Musescore that remains save for the app itself. Perhaps Musescore is incomparable with a migration?
In reply to Thanks to all for the… by namretso
I'm familiar with the general idea of migration. M question is how specifically did you do it - like, describe what you did, step by step. Presumably t some point along the way there was an option given to specify which folders or which types of files got copied. The question is, when you were asked that question, how exactly did you respond. If you told the migration tool not to copy "Documents", then indeed, they weren't copied. But if you did include "Documents" in the lsit of things to migrate, then the files should be there in the Documents folder on the new computer. Either way, though, they must still be on the old computer right in the same place they always have been - no migration tool I've ever heard of would ever delete the contents of the old computer.
I'm thinking your best course of action at this point is to enlist the help of someone in your local area who has Mac experience and can work with you in person, they can probably help you find your files in a matter of minutes.
In reply to Thanks to all for the… by namretso
@ NamretsO, excuse me for not taking part in the debate with full knowledge of the facts.
Didn't Mac save a data backup during migration?
If you've always saved your scores in the default location suggested by MuseScore, then they are located in ~/Documents/MuseScore2/Scores.
While that folder is called MuseScore2 it is not managed or owned by the MuseScore application, but just a regular folder in your own Documents folder. There are no restrictions on it that wouldn't allow a file copy/move to fail anymore than any other file within your own Documents folder.