I whet to open an arrangement I did about 5 months ago and when I did half of it was gone. I cannot find other saved ones and it seems that this is the only one I have saved. Shouldn't there be more than one back up file of projects? It's a good thing I printed the arrangement out when I wrote it. Now I'll have to go back and re-enter all the remaining notes for all the parts to have a completed score.
Any comments?
Thanks
Lost part of an arrangement.
Check in your backup scores folder for autobackups - default in windows is something like
C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\Scores\Backup Scores. The actual location is set in Preferences > Saving and Exporting > Autobackup. Up to 200 backups in total are kept by default.
A third part file recovery utility may be able restore files from that period, unless you've done a full disc wipe since then.
Photoscore (lite) would help save manual re-inputting notes if you have a scanner.
It's an idea to get into the habit of doing regular backups of important files to an exterrnal drive as an extra safeguard.
C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\Scores\Backup Scores. The actual location is set in Preferences > Saving and Exporting > Autobackup. Up to 200 backups in total are kept by default.
A third part file recovery utility may be able restore files from that period, unless you've done a full disc wipe since then.
Photoscore (lite) would help save manual re-inputting notes if you have a scanner.
It's an idea to get into the habit of doing regular backups of important files to an exterrnal drive as an extra safeguard.
Sibelius 6.2, 7.5.1, Windows 11
I did all the checking you suggested and I'm coming up with the same score. I checked my external drive going back a full year and all I'm getting is the same score with just half of the arrangement. It looks like I inadvertently erased half of the score without realizing it. I must have done it when the score was completely finished. Very odd for something like this to happen. Looks like I have to change my backup method.
