Musescore 4 corrupt file and won't recover

• Jan 18, 2023 - 21:23

Been creating a new score in V4. Every time I open it, M4 tells me the file is corrupt. If I choose Ignore, the file loads, but I can't tell if there's a growing problem. If I save a copy it gives exactly the same message. Can't open the file in V3. Very concerned that V4 is not robust enough.

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TBJ.mscz 269 KB

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In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

On those two options, the first (export to MusicXML and then import into Mu3) seemed to work pretty well. My past experience with MusicXML is that some things get lost, but as I think about it, those were exports from Finale that were then imported into Mu3, for maybe Mu4's export algorithm is just better than Finale's. In the test case I did just now, from Mu4 to Mu3, the result looked pretty good at a brief inspection.

The second technique: applying a zip extractor to the .mscx file to extract an embedded .mscx file, the second of which will open in Mu3 and the first of which won't -- well, it, doesn't get much more unintuitive than that! I suppose it's good to know about, but really: how geeky do you want Musescore users to have to be?

Nevertheless, between iDrive and the export to MusicXML remedies I feel pretty well covered, and I do appreciate your pointing me to them. I still think the remedy should just be a Save As, though, if only for the comfort of a broader base of users. Unfortunately, the greatest need for it is probably now, in the early stages of Mu4, and I'm sure there's a long list of fixes and enhances to be addressed.

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