Score Recovery
Musescore 3 has been crashing frequently for me. It was especially problematic today, as the program crashed every time I tried to save a certain score. I thought that it would be best to save a copy of the score, but when I tried to do so, the program crashed again and replaced the score with a 0 byte TEMP file. I did recover a backup as a hidden file, but it was last saved June 12th. Since then, I have put many hours into this particular score, all of which have now been lost. I was wondering if there would be any way to reverse this action or to recover a more recent backup.
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You seemed to have found https://musescore.org/en/node/52116, but you didn't find the hidden backup score called .myscore.mscz, where myscore is the name of you .mscz file. You must turn on the hidden files in your file browser to see them. How to do this varies from OS to OS.
If you reused the name of your file, it is possible you have now overwritten the old file. When you open a file, edit it and save it, the existing .myscore.mscz, file is overwritten. Since I don't know what you have done, it is possible this files still exists with more recent data.
In reply to You seemed to have found… by mike320
I did reuse the old file name when I recovered the backup, and I can't find any .myscore.mscz files. I turned on all hidden files. I also checked my virtual store and I could not find anything. I am a bit confused about how to find the session directory. I can access the local appdata for Musescore 3, but I am not sure where to find the session directory. Should there be a folder marked "session directory"? There is a file called "session," but the data in it are not useful.
In reply to I did reuse the old file… by Jachja.2001
the comma at the end of .mscz, is very important. Your operating system will probably not acknowledge its the same as a .mscz file so it probably won't display the musescore icon for it. The .myscore.mscz, file is saved in the same directory as the original score so you don't normally need to look all over your computer for the hidden files. On windows, you can literally copy %LOCALAPPDATA%\MuseScore\MuseScore3\ and paste it into the file explorer and it will find your session directories.
In reply to the comma at the end of … by mike320
It seems that any recent backup files must have been overwritten. Thanks for the help, but it looks like I will just have to start again from my 6/12 draft. From now on I will backup all my important scores online.
In reply to It seems that any recent… by Jachja.2001
Good idea. If you use MuseScore.com you can use save online and remember to save your score to your computer again so it will remember where the score can be found online. That way, the next save online will replace the existing score.