Help Please - Corrupt Files with 500mb Content Mac 3.7.5

Hello, On the last file of a 27 section project I saved the file to an external hard drive and when I went back to it it stated “Project is corrupt (unable to work with the block files. There is over 500mb on this file, and another saved elsewhere. The other 26 files opened just fine. Here are the details from the message message

{

"timestamp": 1764035334,

"event_id": "43c157c156a24e22b270bfb920ee477f",

"platform": "native",

"release": "audacity@3.7.5",

"contexts": {

    "os": {

        "type": "os",

        "name": "Macintosh",

        "version": "10.16.0"

    }

},

"exception": {

    "values": \[

        {

            "type": "Error_Opening_Project",

            "value": "Project is corrupt\\n(Unable to work with the blockfiles)",

            "mechanism": {

                "type": "runtime_error",

                "handled": false,

                "data": {

                    "sqlite3.query": "DELETE FROM sampleblocks WHERE NOT inset(blockid);",

                    "sqlite3.rc": "11",

                    "sqlite3.context": "ProjectGileIO::GetBlob",

                    "log": "17:48:53: Error: <path>, 0x0002): tried: '<path>' (no such file), '/<path>' (no such file), '/<path>' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '<path>' (no such file)\\n17:48:53: Error: <path>, 0x0002): tried: '<path>' (no such file), '/<path>' (no such file), '/<path>' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '<path>' (no such file)\\n17:48:54: Loaded 384 string <path> Kb in size\\n17:48:54: SQLite error (11): database corruption at line 71416 of \[1b256d97b5\]\\n17:48:54: SQLite error (11): statement aborts at 8: \[DELETE FROM sampleblocks WHERE NOT inset(blockid);\] database disk image is malformed\\n17:48:54: DBConnection SetDBError\\n\\tErrorCode: 11\\n\\tLastError: Project is corrupt\\n(Unable to work with the blockfiles)\\n\\tLibraryError: database disk image is malformed\\n"

                }

            }

        }

    \]

}

}

Any help given would be greatly appreciate.

Jim

I sent you a private message.

Audacity is designed to work from an internal hard drive only. By all means archive a finished project to an external drive but always use an internal one when working on a project. The following is from the manual:

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Mark B