Is this file recoverable?
I made a very uninformed forum post the other day about an Unreadable File. That was just me being neglegent and not saving frequently as well as keeping MuseScore open for days on-end without closing it. But now, I've started on a new piece, rougly 5 days ago. It has become unreadable.
I have the file here which isn't 0 KB, so perhaps its recoverable. It's not a HUGE loss from the last time I saved, it would just be a time-saver to be able to get the file back to its last-saved state.
The newest folder I can open as of this moment is 6 KB smaller than the attached file.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Above_the_Clouds.mscz | 108.56 KB |
Comments
Double-post with https://musescore.org/en/node/165161.
Odd that this file *appears* to have content, but if I open it with a ZIP program on my computer, I don't see it. Do you have any idea what happened to this file? I don't suppose you had it open in a ZIP program while editing it in MuseScore simultaneously? Or was there a crash? And were you using 2.0.3?
This file certainly is beyond repair. Find a backup, see https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
In reply to This file certainly is beyond by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, it's beyond repair by you or I, since we don't see an MSCX file in that ZIP archive :-). But I do note an error message from my ZIp program about data past of the end of record or some such. And the file size *is* big enough that i can easily believe the MSCX file *is* in there but not accounted for properly in the file header. So perhaps some ZIP guru could manage to extra it. And in the process, give us some insight into what may have gone wrong, in this and the handful of other cases where the SCX appears to have gone missing. I have to imagine it will turn out to be a Qt bug, but perhaps one we can learn to work around once we understand better what is happening.
In reply to Well, it's beyond repair by by Marc Sabatella
Ah, yes, 7zip shows only one file in it, 164 Bytes, compressed 119, so there's a whole lot 7zip is not seeing/showing.
In reply to Ah, yes, 7zip shows only one by Jojo-Schmitz
The 164 bytes comprise a META-INF folder which contains the file container.xml which in turn is, alas, empty except for the filename of the score. I suspect that the rest of the data is just soup now with no pointers to where and how to decrypt it.
See also https://musescore.org/en/node/165161, that file in the initial post does open and seems to be a previous (or even later?) version of the file from this post here