My file was corrupted and cannot be opened.

• Jul 20, 2025 - 13:32

So yesterday I edited something and saved it and today when I opened it says "this file is corrupted and cannot be opened" please help me with this issue I spent hours to arrange those.

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Blue violin ensemble.mscz 193.28 KB

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Did anything else happen? Was the computer restarted? Was there a power outage?
Unfortunately, this file cannot be recovered.

This file consists only of zero bytes.
Check the following locations (Windows) to see if there is a backup file:

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

Note: The “AppData” and “.mscbackup” folders are hidden. Ask your preferred search engine how you can make them visible.

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