My hours of work were all gone

• Aug 22, 2015 - 15:01

Today, my musescore crashed. Thankfully most recent data could be restored automatically. After that auto restore, I worked on it for many hours, and saving the data carefully. But after I felt everything was perfect and quit, I can't find my file. All the files are old ones. Now I understand I should save the restored file in another name (or the original name), but I wasn't aware of this. When I quit, the program didn't warn me saving data at all, cause I saved them carefully. Is there still a chance I can get my file back?

Version: 2.0.2


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In reply to by Jm6stringer

Thank you for the advice. In fact, I checked that up already, and my file wasn't there. Only older files were there.
Inside the ....\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore2 directory, only files with random filename and ext of .mscz were found. I checked very one of them, all from much older version. And it wasn't in the normal data directory neither.
Remarks: hidden files setting is at "showing" status.

In reply to by nhJason

Those random filenames are normally what you want. Trying opening them; one will be the last-auto-saved version of your score after a crash.

However, I think what you are seeing is something different. After the crash, when MsueScore offered to restore your session, you should have noticed the filename of the score it gave you was different from the original - it has the full pathname of the original score built in to the name. Like, _C_Users_Marc_Documents_MuseScore2_Scores_my_score.mscz. If you didn't explicitly do a "Save As" to save this back to original file, that explains why opening your original file doesn't show the changes. Assuming you just did a regular save, then it saved under that name, so that is what you need to be looking for. I think maybe it saves into the folder from which you were running MuseScore, but I'm not sure. Anyhow, it's there, you just need to find it.

In reply to by nhJason

What OS are you on? And how did you start MuseScore - from a desktop icon, or some other method?

I don't know the specifics, but when I tried it on Ubuntu, the file was created in the folder the program was actually running in. Which is to say, when I right click the program icon and select properties, the folder listed as the owrking directory is where the file went.

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