My Audacity is up to date, my system is windows 10 aspire es1.
So I had a project that was already saved. I made some changes, closed audacity and then forced a shut down my laptop. I get the message when reopening the project:
‘Error Importing, xx is and Audacity Project File, Use the File-Command to open any audacity Projects.’
This doesn’t work, I’ve gone into the autosaves - there aren’t any. I’ve included the report below. Can someone please help me? (and also in a really easy to follow step-by-step way because I’m a total novice! 
13:43:37: Audacity 2.3.3
13:43:37: Error: Couldn’t find symbol ‘AudacityModule’ in a dynamic library (error 127: The specified procedure could not be found.)
13:43:42: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
13:43:42: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘avformat-55.dll’.
13:43:42: Looking up PATH environment variable…
13:43:42: PATH = ‘C:\Program Files\Broadcom\Broadcom 802.11 Network Adapter;;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\TXE Components\TCS;C:\Program Files\Intel\TXE Components\TCS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Intel\TXE Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\TXE Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\TXE Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\TXE Components\IPT;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Users\mikem\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\mikem\AppData\Roaming\Dashlane\4.6.6.23032\bin\Firefox_Extension{442718d9-475e-452a-b3e1-fb1ee16b8e9f}\components;%DASHLANE_DLL_DIR%;’
13:43:42: Checking that ‘’ is in PATH…
13:43:42: FFmpeg directory is in PATH.
13:43:42: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
13:43:42: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
13:43:42: Loading avutil from ‘’.
13:43:42: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
13:43:42: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
13:43:42: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
13:43:42: Loading avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
13:43:42: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
13:43:42: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
13:43:42: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
13:43:42: File name is C:\Users\mikem\Desktop\Morpheus Invocation for Prophetic Dreaming.aup
13:43:42: Mime type is *
13:43:42: Opening with libsndfile
13:43:42: Opening with liboggvorbis
13:43:42: Opening with libflac
13:43:42: Opening with lof
13:43:42: Opening with libav
13:43:42: Error: Importer::Import: Opening failed.