I suspect this file is unrecoverable, but I thought I would post it and give it a shot. There was no crash that I noticed. I closed the app and re-opened it to get the “error opening file”. The file was/is stored locally. Not the end of the world, but I now think it’s worth keeping a second copy when using the iPad. It doesn’t have the same backups as Pro does?
Might be time to upgrade my iPad, but it was not low on memory or anything. I was using the Korg module AU3 (Piano) in the project should that matter. Just the one part.
As I have done (with mixed success) on a few previous occasions, I duplicated the Dorico project and changed its extension from .dorico to .zip and then tried opening it with various file decompression applications until I found one that worked.
When yours eventually decompressed, included was "preview.pdf" which is a PDF of the project as it was when it was last saved. This PDF, of course, won’t open in Dorico but at least it means that you have a hard copy to help you reconstruct the project rather than trying to remember what you had done. preview.pdf (84.6 KB)
Here’s a musicxml file of preview.pdf as scanned by NotateMe Lite (the free version - so it probably has lots of mistakes). I hope it saves you some time. preview.musicxml (232.4 KB)
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Here’s another scan and PDF which I hope are more useful.
I noticed that wherever there was a timecode in the previous scan, NotateMe Lite sort of choked and misinterpreted things. I opened preview.pdf in a PDF editing application and removed the timecodes, and then re-scanned it.
Stephen, that was truly a gift to me. I recognize all the work you put in, and I am grateful. This is an example of the best of this forum IMO.
I went straight to Dorico Pro with the edited version of the XML, and what it does contain came across perfectly. It was only missing a few instructions, double bar lines or meta like tempo and rit. NotateMe did really well.