Error Message when starting up MuseScore
Attached (I hope) is a screen print of error I get every time when starting up MuseScore. I KNOW I did something to cause this, but don't know what it is. It started when I was working with SoundFonts. Nothing weird happens when running the MuseScore, and this error started showing up before I ever encountered the 1st measure playback problem.
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Did you configure a soundfont as a startup score ("start with score" in preferences)? Looks like mscore tries to interpret a binary soundfont as an xml mscore file which obviously fails.
In reply to Did you configure a soundfont by [DELETED] 3
How do you configure a soundfont as a startup score? I set my Edit>Preferences>General to "continue last session" so I can go directly to the last score I was working with and in the same place. Let's see, "start with score" defaults to demo.msc. I just now tried changing to "start with score" and the same error cropped up before I clicked OK and it opened to the default demo. So I've changed it back to "continue last session". I wish I could remember what I had done when this first happened. Any other ideas about what should I try to fix this? I suppose sooner or later this error might cause me some problems? Thanks.
In reply to Soundfont configuration by MuseScoreAmateur
If you look through the prereferences are there some settings that match the file given in the error message besides Edit > Preferences > I/O?
In reply to If you look through the by David Bolton
Yes, attached is the screen print of the I/O tab settings. Same file as error message.
In reply to Startup MS Error by MuseScoreAmateur
I fixed it. Decided there must be corruption in the soundfont file, so deleted it. Re-downloaded it, decompressed it, then moved it as instructed in the handbook, and now all is well. I do think that what I had done was to move it after it was already selected in the I/O tab under Preferences. Therefore, the path wasn't right. When I started on a new piece, it wouldn't even show up, so I knew that I had moved it later and messed it up. Works fine now, with no more error message at startup. Thanks for all your input.