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by colebatchd
Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:04 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:

Woo hoo! You rock, thank-you.

I'd love to know where I should learn how to do this myself, but am super happy that you've done that for me. Thanks!
by colebatchd
Sun Feb 18, 2018 12:56 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:

I think I can recover most of this project. That would make my day! I'm also happy to do this myself - I just need a point in the right direction... I don't know how to identify the bad data (I presume removing it is a matter of hacking the project file, and possibly also deleting the audio segment.
by colebatchd
Sun Feb 18, 2018 12:49 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:

The problem is "file permissions". The files are write protected, so Audacity is unable to modify the project. You need to fix the file permissions so that they are not write protected. Thanks Steve - I was really excited to see this. However... after some initial excitement (yes the One ...
by colebatchd
Sun Feb 18, 2018 9:24 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Corrupted File
Replies: 8
Views: 535

Re: Corrupted File

I'm not overly useful, but you might want to take a look at my recent post and see if that script helps you

viewtopic.php?f=46&t=98960
by colebatchd
Sun Feb 18, 2018 9:22 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Re: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:

Hi All, In an effort to diagnose this (which appears to apply to this project only) I've opened up the project file and found to my delight that it is xml (yes, I'm new at this Audacity thing). I've opened it up on excel, and copied all the filename attributes into a file called files.txt. I then ra...
by colebatchd
Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:37 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity failed to read from a file from C:
Replies: 10
Views: 2568

Audacity failed to read from a file from C:

Hi All, I'm getting the "Audacity failed to read from a file in C:" error. I'm using Audacity 2.2.1 (http://www.audacityteam.org/download/?from_ver=2.2.1&CommitId=26d72b&Time=Dec6201710:37:34) on Windows 10 Pro 64bit. I have the file, and the data file in the same location. I can o...