File crashed and do not open anymore
Hi !
I was working and suddenly musescore 4.0 crashed. Nothing new until here, I go to open again the file but it crashes right away, before the software can finish the opening phase.
I can open other files, is just this one
I reset the factory settings, it didn't change anything
I downloaded the new version 4.2.1 but its still do not open this file and crashes
I'm working on a macbookpro 16" i9 from 2019 / macos 14.2.1
Here is the file, if someone can help me please, its so damn much time I put into this..
Thank you :)
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Systèmes Sextolet V3.mscz | 44.64 KB |
Comments
I opened it with MuS 3.7 without any problems.
But I'm not sure if it helps, because it contains a lot of extra stuff that might be specific to MuS 4 and might be ignored in MuS 3.7.
Maybe it will save you a lot of work anyway.
In reply to I opened it with MuS 3.7… by HildeK
It does help ! is better than have it complete lost
Thank you
I fixed it by removing empty < noteheadScheme > tag from StaffTypeChange.
What do you think why it was there?
In reply to I fixed it by removing empty… by mercuree
ooh !! thank you very much. In a previous version of this I was testing notehead schemes, to finaly decide not to use it, but at the very beginning, its odd that the bug manifested nearly the end of my score
Can you tell me how do you fixe it ? how can I became independent with this kind of bugs ?
Thank you again :)
In reply to ooh !! thank you very much… by Adrian Delli C…
You may know that the mscz file is a zipped file. If you open it with a zip tool, you will find a file with the extension mscx, which contains the score in uncompressed form and can be changed with a text editor.
But how @mercuree came up with the wrong line with the "noteheadScheme" tag, I don't know either.
It is not easy to find errors in such files, but if you know the syntax and the effect of the tags, it can be very useful.
In reply to You may know that the mscz… by HildeK
@HildeK
Single staff score without parts is relatively easy to debug by removing measures until Musescore can open it.
Issue reported here https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/21248
In reply to ooh !! thank you very much… by Adrian Delli C…
This is definitely a bug of Musescore and not only for your version (MS 4.1.1), latest nightly build also crashes. I will report this bug to Musescore team, but I still can't reproduce the state. This crash was caused by an empty noteheadScheme tag. In your file it was
<noteheadScheme></noteheadScheme>instead of<noteheadScheme>auto</noteheadScheme>(auto just for example).So the question is how you changed notehead to that empty value.
Maybe it was Undo action after setting notehead value. Maybe something else...
In reply to This is definitely a bug of… by mercuree
And just to add.
I unzipped the mscz file. The mscx file did not open either. Then I manually changed the mscx back to mscz. That tried to open, but gave the "Error=XML_ERROR_EMPTY_DOCUMENT ErrorID=13 (0xd) Line number=0" error.
No idea what that means. Though I'm sort of interested.
In reply to And just to add. I unzipped… by bobjp
I unzipped the mscz file. The mscx file did not open either.Confirm.
Then I manually changed the mscx back to mscz. That tried to open, but gave the "Error=XML_ERROR_EMPTY_DOCUMENT ErrorID=13 (0xd) Line number=0" error.If you just rename mscx to mscz, it can show such error, but such renaming doesn't make any sense.
Making new zip archive from those files works as expected - it starts to crash as before.
In reply to >I unzipped the mscz file… by mercuree
All I'm saying is that I thought it was interesting. The original mscz would not even try to open. The unzipped mscx did exactly the same. The renamed mscz extension at least gave an error.
In reply to All I'm saying is that I… by bobjp
This is absolutely fine and expected behavior. When you rename mscx file to mscz, Musescore treats it as a zip archive, but it's not. No zip binary structure, no zip headers. It's still mscx plain text file with xml tags. Musescore tries to unpack it and read, but can't do that and all that happens before any crash can occur, so the error you see is absolutely appropriate and expected.
In reply to And just to add. I unzipped… by bobjp
"XML_ERROR_EMPTY_DOCUMENT ErrorID=13" seems to be reported for different errors and is therefore not very meaningful.
The contained mscx file can normally be opened with MuseScore, but here the error in the tag "noteheadScheme" was the cause that the mscx file could not be opened either. Only after the correction by @mercuree was it possible.
As mentioned, the mscz file is actually a zip file, while the mscx file is a plain text file. This saves a lot of space in terms of file size. However, both can be opened with MuseScore; MuseScore recognizes by the different file extension whether it can be opened directly or whether it has to unzip it first.