up dated muse score

• Sep 29, 2018 - 17:23

I have developed my library of sheet music scores over the years that I have been using this program
An updated version has just become available, so I loaded the update.
Now, the updated program will not read any of my library. There are no instructions on how to reformat my existing music files so the updated musescore program will read them. I get a warning box on the screen stating that my files are too old and cannot be read. The result of the update was that my entire library of music can no longer be read . I need help to reformat all of my music so that I can use it.


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From which version did you upgrade and to which version?

All newer versions are able to read scores created with all older versions, except scores created with a really old 0.9.x version, which can't get read with 2.x, there the fix is it read them with 1.2 or 1.3 and save them, after that they can get read with all 2.x versions again.

Also 1.x (1.3 being the last) and 2.x (2.3.2 being the last) can be installed at the same time and without disturbing one another.

Your only publicly viewable score is

https://musescore.com/user/49253/scores/4109036

And it got last saved with MuseScore 2.1. That opens in 2.3.2 just fine.
(Why your username is "ran" here and "shilo" there is beyond me)

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

I am trying to understand this musescore system.
Here's what I am sure of today:::::::::::.......
when I start my musescore from the icon on my desktop, the screen I read say that I am loading 2.3.1 which loads up nicely and I can use it to recover any score I have stored or make a new score. At this point, all is well.
When the first screen opens a banner appears telling me that 2.3.2r.4592407 is available. So, I update and go through the entire setup. At this point, I then go back to my desktop and restart musescore from my desktop icon, and the screen says I am loading 2.3.1. I don't know what happened to the 2.3.2 that I was supposed to up date to, but at this time everything still works.

Now, going back to yesterday, different things happened...........
first when i updated, a new icon appeared on my desktop. this icon when I opened it had a different appearance than the 2.3.1 screen. when i tried to recall one of my scores, the warning banner shows saying that my files were too old and couldn't be read,and I needed to update. this became a loop of updating and trying to read a score and telling me to update.

Now returning to today. My frustration is gone, and I am trying to repeat what happened yesterday. I started musescore from my desktop, did the update to 2.3.2r.459207. All went well.
However and this is where the frustration starts again. this time the update did NOT give me the new icon, and I haven't been able to find it , (why, I will never know). and when I restart my musescore it loads 2.3.1, not 2.3.2 that the update was supposed to have done.
Now I am really concerned knowing that there are versions of musescore that won't read my library, and I have no idea how to protect or reformat my library files other than making paper copies of some 600 scores so I won't get blitzed later if for some reason I lose my 2.3.1 version.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

I don't know what a mobile app is. The icon I use to start musescore was placed on my desktop when I installed the program............
I have been probing around with musescore all day and I have never been able to duplicate the problem that I had. the problem occurred when a starting screen for musescore came up that had a different appearance than my 2.3.1. the layout for the worksheet was more compact, had a smaller font and several buttons that are not on 2.3.1. So, I'm thinking I managed to blunder into a newer version that i shouldn't have been in. if this did happen, maybe the newer version, that i stumbled into, can't read the music scores created by 2.3.1... I don't think that my concerns should be pursued any longer. If sometime in the future , this reoccurs, then i'll contact you again. thanks for your help

In reply to by shilo

For the record, by "mobile app" I mean the apps available for phones and tablets running iOS or Android - not MuseScore itself, but apps that can read & play MuseScore files.

I am sure you are right that you somehow were not running 2.3.2 at all when you got tht message. Perhaos you had at some point tried out a nightly or the "alpha" build of 3.0, although that too should open 2.x files just fine. Not necessarily of files from older versions, though.

Anyhow, if you see the message again, do follow up and be sure to attach the score and verify which version of the program you are running at the moment you get the error.

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