My scores won't open
Hi. I had accidentally formatted my hard drive, which in turn, deleted EVERYTHING of my Flash drive, including ALL my Musescore scores. I had managed to retrieve them all using Disk Drill, but for some reason, when I go to click on them they won't open up. I'm trying to work on my scores some more, adding more professional stuff, extending them. But I can't open any of them, can somebody help me. Please and thank u.
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What exactly goes wrong? Can you attach one of them here? Is it possible you actually found a backup file (name starts with period, ends in comma? If so, try renaming to remove these. Also, what OS?
These are some scores. I need to know how I can open them back up.
In reply to These are some scores. I… by hotdave8998197
These are all backup scores, not the latest versions, just as Marc suspected
In reply to These are some scores. I… by hotdave8998197
If those backup scores are all you were able to recover, then rename them as mentioned to remove the period and command, then you should be able to open at least some of them. Since thy were recovered from a reformatted disk, they could possibly be corrupt. But, hopefully those backup scores aren't all you were able to recover - backups will be missing the last session's work. Keep looking and see if you also can recover any "real" score (no leading period or trailing comma). And again, what OS? Windows provides OneDrive, macOS provides Time Machine; either can potentially be used to recover the last saved version of your files.
In reply to If those backup scores are… by Marc Sabatella
They’re not the only ones. But I do have OneDrive as my OS.
In reply to They’re not the only ones… by hotdave8998197
Sorry, but OneDrive is not an Os, not an Operating System, but a cloud storage (from Microsoft). So I guess your Os is Windows (and assume it to be 10).
In reply to Sorry, but OneDrive is not… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes that is correct.
In reply to If those backup scores are… by Marc Sabatella
Let me show what I'm talking about. Try to open them, that'll show you what I mean.
In reply to Let me show what I'm talking… by hotdave8998197
2 of those are, again, backup scores, those with a trailing comma
In reply to Let me show what I'm talking… by hotdave8998197
Encounters II.mscz, The hexy Kids.mscz Spiked(Mvt_1).mscz Unvigintuple, Duovigintuple, Trevigintuple and Quattuorvigintuple.mscz, are broken and seemingly beyond repair, in a way I haven't seen before
From This is Lit asf!.mscz I could extract that Who_Let_the_Neon's_In_.mscx and open with MuseScore
From Romance.mscz I could extract that Untitled.mscx and open it with MuseScore
In reply to Let me show what I'm talking… by hotdave8998197
You should seriously consider trashing that flash drive, is seems broken to the bone.
Or this is a failed attempt of recovering deleted files from a formatted drive?
In reply to These are some scores. I… by hotdave8998197
.Quattuorquadragintuple.mscz, .The_Voracitties.mscz, .Unifished.mscz, and .Rainbow_Arrow!.mscz,are broken beyond repait
From .The_Yellow_Flame.mscz, I was able to extract the attached TroubleMaker 14 Year-old Baritone Saxophone Solo or Bass Clarinet Solo.mscx and open it in MuseScore
In reply to .Quattuorquadragintuple.mscz… by Jojo-Schmitz
What do you mean broken beyond repair. They are corrupted right?
In reply to What do you mean broken… by hotdave8998197
More than just corrupt
In reply to More than just corrupt by Jojo-Schmitz
Give it to me straight man.
In reply to Give it to me straight man… by hotdave8998197
I don't know how to put it more straight.
Forget them, they are lost
In reply to I don't know how to put it… by Jojo-Schmitz
I thought this new version was going to open scores even if they were corrupted. But thanks anyway
In reply to I thought this new version… by hotdave8998197
Here it isn't the score which has a couple corrupt measures, but an entirely corrupt file, physically damaged
In reply to Here it isn't the score… by Jojo-Schmitz
This is horrible. 8 months of hard work now gone. I was gonna extended the scores too. I didn’t even memorize the scores to hear what they sounded like, and I’m not gonna start over. There’s gotta be something about damaged files on here.
In reply to This is horrible. 8 months… by hotdave8998197
If you format your disk drive, this Is pretty much to be expected
Lesson (to be) learned: create backups!
I thought earlier said you have OneDrive. If so, unless you went out of your way to disable it, all your files are backed up there. Have you tried to retrieve them from that site yet?