Musescore 4.1 won't save.
I keep getting the message "Your score could not be saved. An unknown error occurred while saving this file." so I guess that's a full day's work gone.
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Had you previously done a "save as" for this score?
In reply to Had you previously done a … by bobjp
yes
Same here...it was a new piece and has never been saved. For now I'm publishing it to the website everytime to download and continue working on it the next time
In reply to same here...it was a new… by XerNk3
I recommend skipping the whole "save to cloud" thing and just saving the score normally to your compute.r You can always publish it to musescore.com also, but you absolutely want a copy on your own drive.
In reply to I recommend skipping the… by Marc Sabatella
thing is I can't save it at all. It shows the message 'there was an error saving the score', whether to the cloud or to the computer. Now all of a sudden I'm able to save it again after a few days not opening musescore at all
In reply to same here...it was a new… by XerNk3
For me it won't even let me publish it.
In reply to For me it won't even let me… by TotallyNotLoki
maybe take screenshots lol. It was my last resort when I had similar problems a few months ago
In reply to For me it won't even let me… by TotallyNotLoki
“Publishing” is a feature of the score-sharing website musescore.com and as such can sometimes have temporary issues if the site is undergoing maintenance or your internet connection is flaky. But that’s totally different from ordinary saving. Assuming you have write permission in the folder you are saving to
a d your drive is not failing, saving to your computer should always work. If you are having trouble with permissions in one folder, try another. If you have problems in all folders, then it may indeed be a failing drive.
I'm now having the same issue for the first time in years. (My error message is "Your score could not be saved...An error occurred when moving the file"). I'm not trying to "move" a file, just save it for the first time to my Dropbox cloud folder. This has worked for years. Suddenly MS won't save this way. Fortunately, this time I was able to save it directly to a folder on my hard drive (C:\Users\cello)...phew. The other weird thing is that, after trying to save and getting the above error message, I'm left with just a temp file (main file GONE) with extension .mscz_saving (see attached images). Now I really want to revert to an older version of MuseScore but not sure that won't create more problems.
In reply to I'm now having the same… by cellomellowman
MuseScore saves a temporary copy first to avoid problems should a power outage or other calamity occur in the middle of the save - your original file won't be harmed. And then it moves the temporary copy over to replace the original. If that operation fails, it tells me you either lack write permissions in that folder, or some other application has locked the file, or your drive is failing, or something like that.
Older versions wouldn't give you errors, they would just silently destroy your files when this happens. You definitely don't want to go back to that!
In reply to I'm now having the same… by cellomellowman
Hoi,
I have the same issues.
I noticed that I don't have these problems when I work outside the Windows libraries (in explorer).
I stopped organizing my scores through Libraries.
As far as I know I didn't have these problems with version 3 btw.
Also, try running MuseScore as administrator, maybe there is an authorization problem.
I've just encountered the same issue. I've tried saving it in a different location (folder) and now my file is saved.
For me, I go into my save files and I see an "autosave" and a ".mscz_saving" file. I just delete both and "save as" the file again and it works