Audacity Forum

Errors were found on the external drive, and were apparently fixed successfully. I agree this drive probably can't be trusted anymore, at least with this project. No errors found on C drive (as this wasn't the computer the drive was disconnected from) I did go ahead an re-save the file on C drive, b...

... is intended for saving as a new project). The invalid token error actually went away and I was able to open the file after another ...

I did it read it, but I'm no longer getting that error message and when I open in Wordpad++ there aren't any special characters anywhere near the 644 line. (see attachment) The only issue I'm having now is exporting/editing the files with missing ...

Did you read the link I posted that sent you to the wiki? It tells you to go into the .aup and deleting a line in your file.

One more thing! I'm trying to fix the corrupted files, but I still can't edit or export them. There are patches of silence in left and right channels at different times -- mix stereo to mono does not work, the program crashes. Mix and render, export to wav, export to mp3, all cause the program to cr...

Thanks guys. So here's what happened -- I checked both C and external drives for errors and repaired them. What I got back was a handful of missing block files with about 5-10% data loss on one project. Annoying, but not a devastating loss. I certainly know better than to disconnect a drive like tha...

I accidentally disconnected my device while Windows was updating. To read this back to you, you changed the machine while it was doing an operating system update. That's scary. I would be checking the system for errors. You can start by doing a clean start. Shift-Shutdown, wait and then Start. That...

* 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 file. It appears mostly on tracks that were not recorded within t...

Reluctant or not, you probably won't have any issues using save as. Going to need some clarification, otherwise we're going to be taking less accurate stabs at the dark. You say you have static. Is that static when you record something new, or is that static added to files you're opening? Is it on e...

Adding: I am reluctant to use "save as" on a file that is already saved, because this caused major glitches in either previous version, or the version before that.