Hi, my computer died as I came close to finishing a project and now I need to try to get the autorecovery working. I saw the appropriate links on the wiki and a few other posts here but I’m not computer savvy enough to understand some of it.
A message came on asking to recover the project. When I clicked Recover I got an error message that says the following:
Error Importing
Audacity did not recognize the type of the file ‘C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\AutoSave\Abbott and costello meet Frankenstein - 2020-06-18 14-15-14 N-398.autosave’. If it is uncompressed, try importing it using “import Raw”.
When I tried importing that autosave file as raw data, I got silent audio.
When I opened the text log it said:
14:35:07: Audacity 2.1.2
14:35:07: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
14:35:07: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘avformat-55.dll’.
14:35:07: Looking up PATH environment variable…
14:35:07: PATH = 'C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;D:\Programs -\QTSystem'
14:35:07: Checking that ‘’ is in PATH…
14:35:07: FFmpeg directory is in PATH.
14:35:07: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
14:35:07: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
14:35:07: Loading avutil from ‘’.
14:35:07: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
14:35:07: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
14:35:07: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
14:35:07: Loading avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
14:35:07: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
14:35:07: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
14:35:07: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
14:35:14: File name is C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\AutoSave\Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - 2020-06-18 14-15-14 N-398.autosave
14:35:14: Mime type is *
14:35:14: Opening with libsndfile
14:35:14: Opening with liboggvorbis
14:35:14: Opening with libflac
14:35:14: Opening with lof
14:35:14: Opening with libav
14:35:14: Error: Importer::Import: Opening failed.
What help can you give me involving this? Do I need to just start from scratch again?