I have been working on a project for months that I had been anticipating finishing up this weekend. Needless to say, it has NOT started out to be a good morning.
I am using Audacity 2.0.6 on Windows 7. Yesterday I opened the sound files like normal in Audacity, and exported all 36 audio tracks (which were showing normal sound waves in Audacity) as WAV files. This morning I imported all of the WAV files into my presentation to start putting things together…only to realize that there was no sound in any of the files!! The files have sizes attached to them which match what they should be, but the files are just a straight line…no audio at all! I’ve tried opening the exported WAV files in multiple media programs and get the same result.
So I tried to open the .aup file to try and figure out what happened to the sound files, and all of the sudden I get the Couldn’t Find Project Data Folder error. I saved 3 versions of the .aup file…one with the raw audio I recorded, one with the edited audio pre-music, and one final version with edited audio and music, and NONE of them will open. They’re all giving me the same message.
I saw all of the information on the .aup being created last and needing a _data file to match, but I haven’t moved anything! I haven’t cleaned anything up, and I haven’t re-named anything. In fact the two older projects (the raw audio and the edited pre-music) I haven’t touched in weeks. How is it possible that the _data files could be separated…or gone?? I haven’t done anything to my computer in the mean time…no cleaning up or anything at all.
Does anyone have any recommendations on how I start trying to find the data files? (I did open the .aup file in Wordpad, and I was able to find the title_data in there in about the third line of text, so I’m not sure what’s going on.) Or better yet, how I can get the audio to play on the exported WAV files that are now silent for some reason? I’ve never had any issues with Audacity before but I’ve been working on this project for months and I REALLY don’t want to re-record the whole thing when it all appears to still be there.
**Moderator note:**Please don’t double-post it only annoys the Forum elves who work on the Forum as it wastes their time. I removed the duplicate where you tagged it the end of another albeit related thread http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=81556&p=261142#p261142 .