File Lost After Crash

• Jun 26, 2012 - 19:47
Type
Functional
Severity
S2 - Critical
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

version 1.2
revision 5470
WIndows 7

MuseScore crashed and upon reopening asked if I wanted to resume from an unexpected closing. I said yes but it didn't find the unsaved file I was working on. I quite and restarted and musescore started up with the message that the file type was unsupported.

What's going on? Is there any chance of finding my file?

Thanks,

- George -

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• Jun 26, 2012 - 21:26

Have you tried restoring from the backup?

MuseScore saves a backup file every so often in the same directory as the original.

The only difference is that it adds a , to the file suffix.

All you need to do to restore from this backup is remove the , by renaming the file.

assuming you are not intending to fix this problem with a patch i have unassigned you :)

HTH
Michael

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• Jun 26, 2012 - 23:28

So, if there is no usual backup file (and I am not sure why there wouldn't be, I was working on the file for a few hours, but it seems to be true that there isn't) is there anything else I can do? . . . Is there some other form of backup? What would be the name of a backup file of a file that was never saved at all? Are there other folders to look in?

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• Jun 26, 2012 - 23:56

Regarding a patch, 2.0 is now the focus - there will be no more work towards 1.2 (what otherwise, would likely have become 1.3).

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• Jun 27, 2012 - 16:41

If you didn't save the file at all then MuseScore would not be able tto save backups as it woldn't have a filename.

It is good practice to save your score immediately affter creation so Musescore can take backups.

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