Audacity cannot find project data folder

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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?

Here Is One Example because I moved my folders and moved them back, so if moving the .aup file helps its fine, but fixing it in edit pad or note pad works, that’s fine too.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
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2

I started a new topic for you. It gets too confusing to answer multiple people’s subtly different issues in the same topic.

You should never rename AUP files and _data folders by hand, or move a project’s _data folder to another folder than the AUP file is in.

A project called “song.AUP” needs to be in the same folder as its _data folder called “song_data”. It is as simple as that.

If you want to rename a project, use File > Save Project As… . Reading this page thoroughly may help: Audacity Manual.

If that is the complete AUP file, it would not open because it is truncated.

If that AUP files is complete, find the folder called “Chance in the Air_data” and put it in the same folder that “Chance in the Air.AUP” is in.

If you have renamed “Chance in the Air_data” to some other name, find the renamed folder and change its name back to “Chance in the Air_data”.


Gale