My musescore files changed from 3 to 4 and now they’re basically deleted
I went to go edit some music that I’ve had for a few years, and when I went to click “recently opened” like I always do to open these files. They were all gone. I checked my file under the musescore 3 portion, and they weren’t there. I checked the musescore 4 portion, and they were there but completely empty. The file size was very very small “around 45kb” and when I tried to open it in 4 it would not open. The error read “cannot open file” and that’s it. I’ve searched EVERYWHERE on my computer for a possible backup or autosave, but there is literally nothing. There isn’t really even any musescore 3 files even though I’ve never really worked in musescore 4, minus just trying it out when it first came out. How do I recover these files?
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All your MU3 scores are still where you saved them. But their association has changed to MU4. Which is why "recently opened" didn't work So, download 7-Zip. A free zip tool. Use it to unzip one of the former MU3 files. The result should include a mscx (not default mscz) file that MU3 will open.
In reply to All your MU3 scores are… by bobjp
I’ve tried unzipping them. It gives me the same error “the system cannot find the file specified”
MuseScore never ever deletes your files. You must simply be looking in the wrong folder. What OS are you on, whand how are you attempting to find the files? Don't rely on any sort of recent files list - be sure to navigate to the exact folder you saved them to. Unless you deleted themselves yourself, they are right there in that same folder.
If you have a file you are having trouble opening, please attach it here so someone can take a look.
In reply to MuseScore never ever deletes… by Marc Sabatella
This along with 3 other songs are all the songs ive been working on, these are songs ive downloaded from other creators just to add my own touch to them. Whenever I try to do anything with those files, i get this message. This the only place that they exist on my computer, ive used a recovery app to search through millions of files and sub files on my computer and these are the only ones on my computer. They are empty files, and show as 0kb when you open the information about them. I was able to change it from a musescore 4 file back to 3 by changing which app they launch, but the problem still persists. I cannot even attach those files to this website because they simply do not exist anymore, even though they still show that they are "there" on my computer, even though the file is empty and carries 0kb to it.
In reply to This along with 3 other… by chiavettas478
As I said, don't look at a recent files list; who knows what your OS is doing there. Looks like those are probably links to files that have since been moved. Instead of trusting an automatically-generated recent files list, Just navigate to the actual folder you saved the file to. For instance, Documents/MuseScore3/scores is the default folder for MuseScore 3.
So, what is the actual pathname of the folder you believe you saved those files to?
In reply to As I said, don't look at a… by Marc Sabatella
What im trying to say is that the recent files list is the only place these files exist on my computer, ive looked everywhere else on my computer and they are not saved anywhere. I even looked through musescore 4 files and they are not there either, just the one file that i opened to test out musescore 4 when i first downloaded it, which is not part of the files that i currently cannot get access to. This is what i get when i open the scores portion of my files for musescore 3, and they are not there. Ive even tried every other folder that musescore 3 holds files and they are not there.
In reply to What im trying to say is… by chiavettas478
even under the mscbackup file there is nothing there
In reply to What im trying to say is… by chiavettas478
If you deleted the file, check your Recycle Bin. If you've already empties that, you will need to search your backups. MuseScore never ever under any circumstances deletes your scores so if they are not there, you must have deleted them yourself, and it ewillo be up to you to figure out if you kept any backups.