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... to parse project information the log showed Error: Unable to parse project information. 16:11:10: ... ParseString error: Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1 ===begin===㼀砀洀氀 ఀ ===end=== ...

There's not enough in that file to recover anything.

I recommend updating to Audacity 2.4.2 at your earliest convenience. You can get it via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

... session and my autosave popped up with 'Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 9595'. I downloaded Notepad++ to see if I could fix ...

thet said there is an error line 73 The file is incomplete. You've got the first 72 lines plus a couple of character on line 73, then the file abruptly stops. It is not possible to repair, because we know that some lines are missing, ...

hello

I have exactly the same problem
can you help me ?

thet said there is an error line 73

The affected drive is probably recoverable (once you've got the data off it) by reformatting it.

Yes, thank you... I was able export and save 90% of the project with "selected audio", and that's great. Now off to buy another Seagate. Sigh!

... the Audacity track, either as noise or as silence. When copying / re-saving a project to another drive, the data is copied literally. There is no error checking other than ensuring that the data is written. When exporting from Audacity, the audio data passes through an "exporter library", which ...

Yikes, at least I can easily get another drive if I have to. But why wouldn't it work after being re-saved to C-drive? The same exact problem? There are no issues that I'm aware of on this drive. I was able to salvage the non-corrupted tracks as wavs with no problem, so I can move them anywhere if I...

I accidentally disconnected my device while Windows was updating. The static is on the already recorded tracks -- there will be some data that is unaffected on a track, then a blast of static that is visible in the waveform as a huge block. It is not on every single track, and it not every project ...