Dear Tech Support:
I have dealt with a corrupted Audacity file before. But this was unusual. I was at the end of a day’s work and compilation of weeks of work. While completing my last correction, the file just changed the contents of the entire file. It changed to a series of floating dots.
It didn’t have the characteristics described in your instructions to fix a Corrupted file but I thought it couldn’t hurt. I completed the instructions and Audacity said the file was recovered. But the file had not changed:
Directory of C:\Users\trudy\Downloads\AUDREPAIR
07/22/2026 12:56 PM .
07/22/2026 12:38 PM ..
07/22/2026 12:43 PM 1,516,544 audacity-project-tools.exe
07/21/2026 03:06 PM 2,597,941,248 broken.aup3
07/22/2026 12:56 PM 2,606,891,008 broken.recovered.aup3
07/22/2026 12:43 PM 1,245,696 sqlite3.exe
4 File(s) 5,207,594,496 bytes
2 Dir(s) 770,670,014,464 bytes free
Directory of C:\Users\trudy\Downloads\AUDREPAIR
07/22/2026 12:56 PM .
07/22/2026 12:38 PM ..
07/22/2026 12:43 PM 1,516,544 audacity-project-tools.exe
07/21/2026 03:06 PM 2,597,941,248 broken.aup3
07/22/2026 12:56 PM 2,606,891,008 broken.recovered.aup3
07/22/2026 12:43 PM 1,245,696 sqlite3.exe
4 File(s) 5,207,594,496 bytes
2 Dir(s) 770,670,014,464 bytes free
The number denoting file location 0.0000, 0.0010, 0.0020 instead of the usual 0.0, 1.0, 2.0. The entire file now contained just continuous dots (…). some of the dots were raised.
Do you have a procedure for fixing this corrupted file? I cannot afford to lose weeks and weeks of work again.