I was recording something for a school project and my computer crashed and shutdown in the middle of it. I think it autosaved my stuff, but everytime i try to recover it, it says "Error: not well formed (invalid token) at line 1045.
help me please i beg you
ihiuh - 2015-04-19 21-07-46 N-44.autosave (59.5 KB)
Keep a copy of your original autosave file somewhere safe, then try replacing the original autosave file with this version:
ihiuh - 2015-04-19 21-07-46 N-44.autosave (59.1 KB)
You will need to fix that because it is probably a problem with the audio or video drivers on your computer and it will very likely happen again. Please see here for what you can do about it: Audacity Manual.
Gale
I replaced it and opened it, but there is no sound. Like it still has 17 minutes worth of stuff, but no sound.
Is the audio just a flat line 17 minutes long?
Can you choose Help > Show Log… top right of Audacity, save the log file and attach it. The log should tell us why there is a problem. Please see here for how to attach files: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-attach-files-to-forum-posts/24026/1
Now, be sure to leave Audacity running until we find out what the problem is. If you need to shut down the computer, you must use Windows Task Manger to quit Audacity, and not use any commands in Audacity to quit or close the project. If you need to, use CTRL + SHIFT + ESC to open Task Manger, find the “Processes” tab, right-click over “audacity.exe” then choose “End Process Tree”. That will keep the data and the AUTOSAVE file safe.
What version of Windows are you using?
Audacity can’t find the AU files in “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_data”. Are you user “Kristen”?
If you are Kristen, open that “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_data” folder in Explorer. You should see only one folder, “e00”, and no “AU” files. Is that what you see?
Double-click the “e00” folder to open it. You should see only two folders “d00” and “d01”, and no AU files. Do you see that?
Now double-click the “d00” folder to open it. You should see (I think) 292 AU file (only 256 of those AU files are actually your recording).
Go back to the “e00” folder and double click on the “d01” folder. You should see 92 AU files (2 of those are not part of your recording). Do you see that?
If you see AU files anywhere else in “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_data” that is why Audacity cannot find the files. If so, what you can do is look at the fourth number in the file names of the AU files (after the “e” in the name). If that fourth number is “0”, put that file in the “d00” folder. If that fourth number is “1”, put that file in the “d01” folder.
For example, file “e00002f2.au” should go in the “d00” folder.
If you do that and the AU files have the correct audio, then you will get your recording back.
There is another solution, but this is the simplest one to try first.
Gale
I’m running windows 8.1
I went to “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_data”. and saw “e00” and no “AU” files.
Inside of the “e00” folder I saw “d00” and “d01”, and no AU files.
In the “d00” folder I saw the 292 AU files and in the “e00” folder I saw the 92 AU files.
There were no other AU files anywhere in the"C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_data" folder.
Still no sound. Should I try to open up these AU files individually?
That looks OK, if you meant that the 92 AU files were in “d01”.
But there is some reason Audacity cannot access those files.
I would use Windows Task Manager to force quit Audacity (after you open it, click “More details” if you see that, then the “Processes” tab, then "right-click over Audacity and “End process tree”). This retains the AU files in the _data folder as they were.
Then rename “ihiuh - 2015-04-19 21-07-46 N-44.autosave” to some other extension like “.auto”
(so rename to "ihiuh “2015-04-19 21-07-46 N-44.auto”) or move that file to your Desktop. This lets Audacity launch without the Automatic Crash Recovery Dialogue (but you can still rename the file to “.autosave” if you need to use the Automatic Crash Recovery dialogue again).
Now select “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh.aup” and “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_data” and copy them to your Desktop so you have a backup.
Yes after force quitting Audacity, launch it again then drag in some of the files that are are marked as “missing” in the log such as
C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00009c8.au
C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00004c3.au
C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d01e0001a93.au
If those files have proper blue waves, just quit Audacity normally without saving changes.
Next open “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00” and select the files in the “d00” folder that are marked as “orphan block files” in the log. Here is the list of the orphans in “d00”:
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000005.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e000003d.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000108.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000176.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000276.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00002c3.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00002c9.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e000030e.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000317.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000373.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000410.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00004dd.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e000059a.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00005d4.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e000065f.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000675.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000677.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00007ad.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00007ca.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000837.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000904.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e000095c.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e000099e.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e00009e3.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000a17.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000b5e.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000bf2.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000c95.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000cf0.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000d2a.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000dbe.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000e55.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000f0a.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000f3e.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000f78.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d00e0000f9f.au'
Right-click over those orphan files, choose Cut, then paste them to your Desktop.
Then cut and paste these two orphan files from “d01” to your Desktop:
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d01e000122f.au'
7:41:10 PM: Warning: Orphan block file: 'C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00d01e000140f.au'
Audacity thinks these “orphans” are not part of the recording so it will be probably be simpler to exclude them from what we are going to do. If however you had some audio in this project before you started recording which you want to keep, leave all those orphan files where they are.
The next steps are explained in detail here: Audacity Manual.
In summary, you sort the AU files in the “d00” folder by time modified, rename them while time-sorted so the file names run in an alphanumerical sequence, then use the “Audacity 1.2 Recovery Tool” to make a single WAV file out of those files. Tell Recovery Tool to make a stereo (2 channels) file.
Then repeat the same process for the files in the “d01” folder.
Then all you should need to do is import the two WAV files, the one made from the d00 folder first, then the one made from the d01 folder. Drag the WAV made from d01 after the end of the WAV made from d00. Note that you may find some brief sections where the left channel’s audio is in the right channel and vice-versa. If you include the orphan files, these might mainly appear at the start of the first WAV, but there is no guarantee about that.
Another observation is that it is possible a misbehaving anti-virus application is interfering with Audacity’s _data folder. Or a virus on your computer could be the cause of the problem. If you suspect the former, you could disconnect the internet then configure or close down the anti-virus application. If other applications than Audacity are behaving strangely, then you should force quit Audacity and run an anti-virus check before doing anything else.
Gale
I renamed the file to “ihiuh- 2015-04-19 21-07-46 N-44.auto” and copy and pasted “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh.aup” and “C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_data” to my desktop.
Then I tried to drag the files marked as missing into the log, but there were no blue waves at all.
I also looked for the orphan block files in the “d00” and “d01” folders of C:UsersKristenDocumentsihiuh_datae00, but none of them were not in there at all.
After my computer crashed and I turned it back on, something happened and I think I may have opened the individual AU files and accidentally resaved some of them under different names. I don’t know
That’s not a good sign. 
If you select a region in any of those imported AU files, open Effect > Amplify… and “New Peak Amplitude (dB)” says “-Infinity”, that suggests Audacity has silenced the files.
If “New Peak Amplitude (dB)” says some positive value such as “40 dB” that means the files are probably recording noise in-between the audio you were recording, and you could try dragging in a few more files. If those have waves, you could proceed with time-sorting and renaming the files then recovering them with the “1.2 Recovery Utility”. Or as a long-shot, force-quit Audacity then use WIN + X and choose “Shut Down”. Wait a while and reboot the computer, then name your AUTOSAVE file back to “.autosave” and see if Audacity can read the files that are listed in the AUP.
That indicates perhaps that Audacity has deleted them, but it should not have done that unless you saved the wrongly recovered project, which I stressed many times that you must not do.
If all the files that are left in the “d00” and “d01” folders are “-Infinity” you don’t have any good options left. About your only option is data recovery software to see if it can find deleted versions of the AU files that have not yet been overwritten. That only works with a near-empty Hard Disk drive, not with Solid State drives.
If you’re saying that you dragged all or most of the AU files into a project and those files had waves at that time, you could examine all your other AUP files and _data folders on your computer. If you have a lot of those, search for e00009c8.au, e00004c3.au and e0001a93.au which are three of the files that were recorded.
Make sure the search properties are not set to “Name”, so that the search looks inside files and so might be able to find any AUP files that have a reference to those AU files: Searching for files in File Explorer - Windows 8.1.
Gale