File constantly loads blank score

• May 25, 2018 - 09:57

I was working a transcription for a song when I restarted musescore. When I loaded up the file again, the score was completely empty and would crash whenever there was a midi input from my keyboard. However, since I've only entered in a few notes, I decided to just start a new file. After a while, I restart musescore to discover that the problem happened again (the file loaded fine a few times before that, so it's either random or something's triggering it). After digging around on the forums for a bit, I found that I had no backup and decided that the file was probably lost, so I cut my losses and started from scratch again. Today, I open up musescore to discover that the same problem has happened again. Does anyone know why that's happening or how to recover the files? It's quite annoying and discouraging to constantly lose my work.

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Sky-Filling_Departed_Spirit_~_Lightning_Word.mscz 36.31 KB

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• May 25, 2018 - 10:16

Something in the filename is throwing MuseScore off track (and not only MuseScore, vim too)

Extract the mscx from the mscz, e.g. using 7Zip, rename the file to e.g. foo.mscx and it'll open in MuseScore

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foo.mscx 74.62 KB

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• May 25, 2018 - 17:50

Looks like that works. Thank you guys so much!
Strangely enough though, musescore seems to handling my other files with tilde just fine, so I have no idea if that's what's causing the problem.

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G_Free_~_Final_Dream.mscz 42.95 KB
Seven_Flowers_of_the_Deep_Sea_~_Forgotten_Benefit.mscz 39.28 KB
Mankind_Salvation_Plan_~_The_Greatest_Salvation.mscz 39.16 KB
Quintet_that_Resounds_Atop_the_High_Summit_~_Elemental_Quintet.mscz 38.62 KB

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