Re-installing Musescore when upgrading computer

• Apr 16, 2020 - 13:38

What should I do to be able to continue to edit - if necessary - existing Muse Score files. Of course i have PDFs of important things; but it would be better practice to safeguard the .musx files; How do I do this:

1 Where are they? 2 What procedure should In follow? 3 On re-installation, how will the new Musescore 3.0 find them?

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• Apr 16, 2020 - 14:01

Thanks, Jo Jo. I mean the latest files which MuseScore 3.0 has created. I think they are - as you say - .mscz ; .mscx seem to be kind of system files. So you just save all your hard disk to a secure location, change the hard disk, re-load the content removed, and then re-install the individual programs?

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• Apr 17, 2020 - 08:52

So: (1) Find Muse Score (muse-score-created) files; back them up to an external HDD ;

(1a) Upgrade computer as described;

(2) when reinstall of muse score in rehabilitated computer,

** ensure that these are copied back into the germane Folder i.e.

(the Folder where the newly-installed MuseScore 3.0 has elected to store whatever it will access when it runs?

?

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• Apr 17, 2020 - 09:37

Hi Moverley,

1 - Your MuseScore files can be in absolutely whatever folder you want. There is no need at all to put them in the default folder used by MuseScore. You can of course put them in that default folder, it is entirely up to you.

2 - If your files were V2 files, first time you will save them with V3 that will change the format and the new file will be unusable with V2. Depending on your preferences and number of files you can adopt different strategies:
-Put all you current files under a folder called "V2" and save them progressively under a new folder "V3" when you edit them by V3
-keep a shared V2/V3 folder structure (with sub-folders like you want by genre or whatever) and add 'V3' in the name of the file when you save it for the first time from V3
-shared V2/V3 folder structure and just overwrite the V2 file with the V3 version without changing the name (possibly keeping a full copy of all your V2 files version somewhere else (folder archive or something like that) "in case of")
-...

3 - disks are breakable, computer hardware in general also ... You should NEVER keep only a single copy of your files ... Either copy them on a USB stick/disk, or use a cloud service, or have a small home NAS and put all your file on there. This is what I have: a small home NAS with two disks copies one of another, my files are NOT on my different laptops. So I can access them from whatever computer is on my home WIFI. If a disk is broken I lose nothing (unless the other one breaks also in the days waiting delivery of a replacement disk)
Chose whatever solution you prefer, but I know lot of people crying after loosing years of work / photo's because they didn't realise that a single disk in a computer could break.

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