Help! File will not open! Saved as .mscz, but won't open!
Hi everyone.
I completed a file for my school assignment. I saved it as a .mscz file, but when I went back to work on it, it wouldn't open. It just showed a message saying "Error: Bad file descriptor"
What does this mean, and is it possible to open it?
Please help,
Olvster123
Here is the broken file.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Mystery.mscz | 6.02 KB |
Comments
Perhaps you can find a useable backup file. See:
http://musescore.org/en/node/20367
Regards.
I've already tried finding the backup file, using that forum.
I followed all the steps, but there wasn't any file to find.
Is there anything else I can do?
In reply to I've already tried finding by Olvster123
If you set your system to show hidden files and you still didn't see it, then, much as it pains me to say it, I think your work is not recoverable. You'll have to start over from scratch. I'm sorry.
In reply to I've already tried finding by Olvster123
The backup file is created each time you open a score. So if you created the entire score in on sitting, never saving and and then rleoading the file, there would be no backup, I'm afraid. but there *should* still be an "autosave" file - the one in the special OS-specific folder labelled with a bunch of random-looking characters.
In reply to The backup file is created by Marc Sabatella
Not quite correct, the backup files are created every time you save an existing file the first time in a given session (and overwritten on the first save in a later session).
The autosave files are created at regular (and configurable) intervals.
In reply to Not quite correct, the backup by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, thanks for the correction! So there should be a backup in all cases, but still, it might be very old. The autosave file will be the way to go, I think.
In reply to Yes, thanks for the by Marc Sabatella
There were no backup files though. I set the settings to create a backup every 2 minutes, but there were no backups. Does this mean I have to start from scratch?
In reply to There were no backup files by Olvster123
I guess. Are you sure you found the correct folder for your OS? Which OS, and which folder did you check? Were there literally no files at all there, or just no MSCZ files?