Musescore 4 (nightly) screwed up my file. Any way to recover it?
Dear forum.
I’ve modified a score for the marching band I conduct in Musescore 3.
Since I needed two-bar-repeats, I came across the nightly builds of Musescore 4.
Great. I opened the score and inserted these great, natively supported two-bar-repeats.
Saved, happy.
10 minutes later, the score couldn’t be opened at all.
No error message, just this little yellow Apple wheel rotating...
At this moment I realized that I did not make a copy, but saved over the original.
So no way to open it in Musescore 3 and apparently no way in MS4 either.
I did extract the file and searched for these lone ampersands, but without any luck.
Do I have any way of recovering the file?
Thanks for the effort.
Sincerely,
Tobi
Comments
Extract the mscx from the mscz, using WinZIP or 7zip or whatever Macs have to offer for this. Open that with MuseScore 3. No idea how that reacts on the 2-measure repeat though
In reply to Extract the mscx from the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Wow. That was fast AND accurate.
Thanks a million times. You saved my score.
You deserve a real good coffee, Sir.
In reply to Extract the mscx from the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, it's not a 100% accurate. The one bar repeats are missing and the bars related to a repeat are not accessible any more. They don't even have the one-bar-repeat-dash. It's basically an empty measure. Strange...
In reply to Well, it's not a 100%… by SliVe
Of course, as MuseScore 3 doesn't know about those 2-measure repeats (and probably used the 1-measure repeats differently)
In reply to Of course, as MuseScore 3… by Jojo-Schmitz
Is there a way to access those measures?
At the moment, these repeating measures are shown as measures without any notes, repeats or rests.
I can not access them at all.
Does it make sense to send you the file?
In reply to Is there a way to access… by SliVe
Always makes sense.
In reply to Is there a way to access… by SliVe
Open it in a 4.0 nightly, get rid of the measure repeats, save as mscx, open in MuseScore 3
In reply to Open it in a 4.0 nightly,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, unfortunately I get "Open Error - Cannot open file ..." in MS4 nightly.
MS3 does open the file but only with those inaccessible bars.
In reply to Well, unfortunately I get … by SliVe
Please attach the score that opens in MS ver.3.
In reply to Please attach the score that… by Jm6stringer
Alright, here you go.
In reply to Alright, here you go. by SliVe
How's this?
Skyfall (MS(3).mscz
I did a quick 'voice swap' repair.
Because I did this on a large selection across the score, you may have to check that all is good.
Also, you need to re-generate the parts.
In reply to How's this? [inline:Skyfall… by Jm6stringer
Yep, you got it. Impressing.
What exactly did you do? I'm not sure I fully understand "voice swap repair" but I'm always willing to learn.
Thanks a lot for your help.
In reply to Yep, you got it. Impressing… by SliVe
It is one of the methods described in How to fix a score that contains corruptions
The big lesson thus is do NOT use nightly builds for production work especially not if those nightly haven't even reached alpha stability yet...
In reply to The big lesson thus is do… by jeetee
The bigger lesson is to keep backups. Treat your hard drive like a blackboard that can be accidentally changed or wiped clean. Have a working folder, a backup folder, a big separate backup drive and cloud storage (in case of a gas explosion in your apartment block that wipes out your machine and USB sticks) .
In reply to The bigger lesson is to keep… by underquark
I hate when that happens. Glad you're OK.
;-)
When you mention Apple, I assume you mean you are on macOS. In which case, you might be able to restore an older version with Time Machine. On Windows, the same would be easily possible with OneDrive.
But indeed, it's important to realize that nightly builds of MuseScore 4 are not meant for real work; it's still months away from being ready.
In reply to When you mention Apple, I… by Marc Sabatella
I don't use Time Machine. If I did, this might have been the perfect solution.
Well. I guess, I'll just rewrite everything.
That's the lesson to be learned as mentioned by most of you guys:
Don't use nightly builds in a productive environment and always back up your files.
Thanks for your effort, I'll start over.
In reply to I don't use Time Machine. If… by SliVe
In the unlikely event of your computer hard disk failing or your computer being lost/stolen, how would you get back any of your files?
In reply to In the unlikely event of… by yonah_ag
I'm using a NAS that makes regular backups on an external harddrive.
In reply to I'm using a NAS that makes… by SliVe
That's good. Looks like you were a bit unlucky with the nightly build.