After modifying and saving an .aup file, I tried to open it the following day. Failed with messages “couldn’t find the project data file” and then “could not find file …”
Please help
After modifying and saving an .aup file, I tried to open it the following day. Failed with messages “couldn’t find the project data file” and then “could not find file …”
Please help
An Audacity Project is not a single audio file but is a complex set of files managed by Audacity.
More information here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audacity_projects.html
With help, discovered what I did wrong: renamed the aup file, but not the data folder.
Anthony
Manually renaming projects will break the project unless you also manually edit the AUP file, which is NOT recommended as it is very easy to mess that up and make the project unrecoverable.
The safe way to rename a project is to open the project in Audacity, then use “File menu > Save Project As…” (as described in the blue box in this section: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audacity_projects.html#AUP)