Recovering a lost score
I was working on a composition and was 16 pages in when the Musescore app started 'not responding'. I had not yet had a chance to save my work and had to close the program because it had been 'not responding' for more than a day. Additionally, after opening a new Musescore, I found out that the app had once again randomly signed me out of my account.
Is there anyway I can get my 5+ hours of work back?
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> I was working on a composition and was 16 pages in when the Musescore app started 'not responding'. I had > not yet had a chance to save my work
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Musescore temporarily (I emphasize, temporarily) saves to the file new_project.mscz
It is located in the Musescore user folder
Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/MuseScore/MuseScore4/
Windows:
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4\
Honestly, I doubt that this file is still there or that your project is saved in it.
I agree that Musescore should change the default file saving strategy.
For example, Notepad++ saves all new documents by default, regardless of whether you did a Save or not.
Save early! Save often!
This should be your watchwords in every activity you perform on a computer, in every application.
NEVER trust the application to do it for you.
Obviously working on any file without saving it is bad practice. We have 40+ years of desktop experience to iinform us. There are plenty of chances to save during a 16pp edit session!
I also recommend saving into a local cloud-synced folder from say OneDrive or Dropbox. That will give you a versioned history of the file that will help you if other things go wrong such as file corruptions.