Damaged aup3 File

[lotta]

Hello,
I’m very new to the App. I accidentally saved my aup3 file in my inactive oneDrive folder. It was anyway working when i saved, closed and opened it a few times, but then suddenly it didn’t anymore. I tried to move the file into another folder, tried opening it on another laptop and tried using the audacity project tools recovery thing, but i says: “unable to open database file”. I use Windows and the file contains 556 MB.
Can anyone help me? thank you !!

[Wrecks0]

Look at the version history of the file and see if you can restore it to earlier. I understand you can do that to the whole OneDrive folder as well.

[evilmrb]

@lotta

Can anyone help me? thank you !!

I will try. First of all, how technically-inclined are you? There is a bunch of tools that the Audacity team created for repairing databases but they are a bit tricky to use. I have managed to repair projects for about 6 or 7 people in the past using them. If the idea of doing that makes you want to run for the hills, please send me a PM and I will send some details for getting the file to me. Obviously, I cannot guarantee it will work but I will have a go.

Mark B

Update - sorry, my mistake. I didn’t notice you’d said you tried the project tools already or I wouldn’t have suggested it. If I had a brain, I would be dangerous. It’s my age.

[lotta]

thanks for you reply. it tells me that there is no older version to be found. the folder doesn’t show an option for restoring

[lotta]

thank you, that would be super helpful because I know nothing about this stuff. Also i feel kind of stupid because I cannot find any option to send you a PM? how can I do that or can you write me one?

[Trebor]

@lotta

oneDrive

Is cloud storage …

Audacity crashed, hours of work silenced

You can Store them in the cloud or back them up to the cloud. But it’s pretty unwise to have a live project open in the cloud - remote far away storage like that can’t keep up with the real-time demands of audio recording and editing, So if you do have a project archived or backed up in the cloud you really need to copy it back to on-board storage for working on it in Audacity. Peter.

[DVDdoug]

And… I always recommend making WAV or FLAC backups whether you create a project or not. These formats are “simpler” and more robust than the database project file.

If you are recording, it’s a good idea to make a regular audio file immediately after recording. And perhaps intermediate files if you are working on a big project where you’d lose a lot of work if you have to start-over from the beginning.

And of course, it you are working on anything critical or important, keep multiple backups as you would with any important data.