Can't open my musescore file after my laptop crashed.

• Nov 19, 2024 - 04:14

I was working on my musescore file for school before my laptop suddenly crashed out of nowhere and now my musescore file is 'corrupted' and won't open. What's even more annoying is that I literally saved before my laptop crashed so musescore just straight-up overwrote my file with a corruption for no reason. I've tried everything from updating my musescore to turning it into a zip file to unzip it (winrar didn't recognise it as a proper zip file). Do I have to restart or is there a way I can recover my schoolwork?

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Mind Attack - Pad, Chord and Structure Chard.mscz 62.88 KB

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• Nov 19, 2024 - 07:15

"!I've tried everything,,,"

Unfortunately, if you try opening it in a hex or text editor, you will see that it is just a file full of zeros (00 00 00 00).

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• Nov 19, 2024 - 08:40

If you are under Windows have a look here:

C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4\cloud_scores
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4\cloud_scores\.mscbackup
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\Documents\MuseScore4\Scores
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\Documents\MuseScore4\Scores\.mscbackup
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\Documents\MuseScore4\Cloud_Scores

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