My scores won't open

• May 24, 2021 - 00:27

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?

In reply to by Havenisthebest99

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 by Havenisthebest99

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

Attachment Size
Who_Let_the_Neon's_In_.mscx 193.67 KB
Untitled.mscx 494.04 KB

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?

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