I’ve just started using Audacity to digitise old tapes.
I’ve recorded Elton John’s ‘Yellow Brick Road’ album and created a ‘Yellow Brick Road_data’ folder and have a Yellow Brick Road.aup file within this folder (along with sub folders for d0 to d06 and e00.
I now realise that I shouldn’t have moved these default files and folders from the ‘temporary files’ folder, but I created an Audacity Project Folder into which I moved all the above.
Now, when trying to open my Yellow Brick Road-aup file I get a message saying - Couldn’t find the project data folder: “Yellow Brick Road_data” (even though it’s viewable in the File Open window.
Could anyone help me with fixing this problem?
Many thanks,
George.
You need to move the files back to their original locations. For future reference you should save the project to a named loation in a folder of your choice.
Actually when I transcribe tapes and LPs I never bother to Save an Audacity Project at all. Rather I just record the material perform any editing, place track markers and then export a set of WAV files. Then close the project without Saving it.
The _data folder and the .AUP file must be in the same location.
For example, if the project was saved as “mytest” then there will be a file called “mytest.aup” and a folder called “mytest_data”. The file and the folder must be side by side in the same directory.
The folder name must not be changed or Audacity will not be able to find it.