Can I Retrieve My Score After I Have Bought A New PC?
I spent a considerable amount of time in early 2017 on a solo piano transcription of Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull using Version 3 or its updates. Then my PC crashed and my data was unrecoverable, and I ended up buying a brand new PC. I assumed that my score was lost, but now I'm wondering if it still exists in the big MuseScore brain somewhere. Is this possible and, if so, how can I access it?
Thank you.
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Only if you saved it online (and/or on an external medium). Recovery from disks is possible if they are not too damaged, using a docking station.
If you saved it online on musescore.com, or I'm any cloud based storage, it'd be recoverable from there, if it is on a crashed harddisk the chances to recover are very slim and also expensive. If the harddisk is still intact and just the rest of the computer us broken, it is recoverable by just connecting that harddisk with the new computer, possible with the help of some USB harddisk housing
If it was a Windows PC and you didn't go out of your way to not use OneDrive, then probably indeed your score and all your other documents from all your other programs were saved to that service, and all you'd need to do is log in to OneDrive on the new computer as well. If you did elect not to use OneDrive, I suggest not making that mistake again, it's bailed me and other I know out many a time.
Thanks to you all for your replies. Unfortunately I was cloudless at the time I created the score. However, I still have my pencil-and-paper back-up! I'll just have to re-transcribe the score. Annoying, but not the end of the world.