Audacity cannot find project data folder

I opened up a saved folder Final Mix.aup and made some changes. I clicked on “Save Project” (not “Save project as”). When I closed the project and then re-opened it, I got the error message: “Couldn’t find the project folder: Final Mix_data”. This is my entire project!! How do I retrieve that folder?

I just found a response in your forums to this question.

https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/recorded-and-saved-lp-projects-cannot-be-found/7668/1

I did not move or delete any of my files so I do not understand why Audacity couldn’t find the project data folder. By the way, after I click on “ok” for error message saying it couldn’t find data folder, a second error message opens up: “could not load file Final Mix.aup”. I don’t know if this indicates a different problem from the first error message.

The AUP file is the project manager. It’s a text file that tells Audacity what to do with all the stuff inside the _DATA folder.

So they’re different.

The AUP file and the_DATA folder must be in the same location or folder for a show to open.

could not load file Final Mix.aup

How did you open the show to begin with? Dragging? Double click the AUP file? Open Audacity first?

Koz

I double-clicked on the .aup file

Is the data folder there?

Go back to where the aup file was and look around. Do you see the similarly named _data folder? If you can’t find it, Audacity will never be able to find it.

Koz

I’m having the same problem. The .aup file and the folder are together. Is there a way I can show audacity where the folder is? So frustrating.

What is the name of the .AUP file?
What is the name of the _data folder?
Open the .AUP file in NotePad and copy the first 5 lines and paste them into your reply. (Do not edit the file in any way - do not save the file while open in Notepad, just copy the first few lines and paste into tour reply).