file corruption - continues and infects

• Jan 5, 2023 - 20:31
Reported version
4.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S2 - Critical
Reproducibility
Randomly
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

I don't have any good debug sequence info for you. I worked for several days on a composition, and luckily exported the parts just before it died. Today I was working with it, then I saved a copy of it, closed it and worked on another file, and then I tried to open the file again and got a "Open Error, file ... is corrupted" message. No explanation or any other indication anything was wrong while using it. Pretty upsetting.

The .mscz file was in a dropbox folder, how I have worked for years with Musescore. The copy had most of the data, so only a loss of 30min of work, so I'm not angry. MacOS 11.6.7 Big Sur. Musescore 4.0.0. I used the 4.0 beta version for months, and never had this problem.

I have included the file so you can see what broke.

Attachment Size
Crushdance.mscz 94.4 KB

Comments

Title file corruption file corruption - continues and infects

I installed 4.0.1 having seen the corruption issue was addressed. I had a previous version of my score with missing work I though I had lost (uncorrupted). On the "corrupt" file, I was able to dismiss the corruption dialog and salvage my work from before. Then upon reopening the new file, I get the corruption message again. I can click "ignore" and keep working, but is my work going to ultimately stop opening and be lost? Do I have to rewrite all these hours of work?

Attachment Size
Crushdance2.mscz 94.13 KB