Command “audacity-project-tools -drop_autosave broken.aup3” causes
the error message “database disk image is malformed”.
This seems to somehow correlate with regular error messages in
Audacity itself, like
…
“type”: “File_Error”,
“value”: “Audacity failed to read from a file in .”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false,
“data”: {
“sqlite3.rc”: “11”,
“sqlite3.context”: “SqliteSampleBlock::GetBlob::step”
…
What could be the reason for this behaviour?
Thanks in advance, Bernd
So this likely indicates that the .aup3 project database file is beyond recovery. However, if you wish to zip it up and upload it somewhere, I’ll take a look at it. Post a link.
thx a lot for your support! I’d like to send you a link but I would prefer a private message. unfortunately I am not yet allowed to use this function in the forum.
besides I found out that the errors occur with every .aup3, sooner or later
Perhaps you are cutting and pasting tracks from a damaged project…
I am not sure, but I think you can send me a DM here: https://discord.com/invite/audacity.
Note: I normally ignore PM/DM’s; however I’ll be on the lookout for yours.
detailed problem description:
{
“timestamp”: 1675077022,
“event_id”: “87a868ff8303c241b3975ddb5f38dc4a”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.2.3”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.22621”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error_Saving_Project”,
“value”: “Audacity failed to write to a file.\nPerhaps is not writable or the disk is full.\nFor tips on freeing up space, click the help button.”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false,
“data”: {
“sqlite3.rc”: “11”,
“sqlite3.context”: “ProjectGileIO::”,
“log”: “\tLibraryError: database disk image is malformed\n12:10:22: sqlite3 message: (11) database corruption at line 69959 of [1b256d97b5]\n12:10:22: sqlite3 message: (11) statement aborts at 15: [INSERT INTO SELECT * FROM WHERE blockid = ?;] database disk image is malformed\n12:10:22: DBConnection SetDBError\n\tErrorCode: 11\n\tLastError: Failed to update the project file.\nThe following command failed:\n\nATTACH DATABASE ‘’ AS outbound;\n\tLibraryError: database disk image is malformed\n”
}
}
}
]
}
}
I sent you a recovered zip file. Hope this fixes the problem.
Oh - and avoid working on networked drives…
with the file you restored, there are no more error messages so far. if you managed to do that with the audacity project tools, i would like to know what i did wrong… 
thanks a lot for your support!
Yeppers, just followed my directions in the first post here: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/corrupt-or-otherwise-broken-audacity-project-recovery/64162/1