I keep getting "Project Recovered" when I open the project I'm working on

I keep getting I keep getting “Project Recovered” when I open the project I’m working on

After you click “OK” in the Project Recovered dialog, the “Automatic Crash Recovery” dialog may still be on the screen. Click “Skip”.

Does that help?

Yes, it keeps happening. I have all my work backed up, but surely there’s something very wrong here, isn’t there?

Agreed that something is not right.

In the Finder, with Audacity closed, click on the Go menu and choose Go to folder.
In the dialog, type ~/Library/Application Support/audacity .

In the audacity folder, find the audacity.cfg file , right-click on it and choose “Open with … TextEdit”

At or near the end of that file you’ll find “[Active Projects]”. If there is anything listed under that, delete it then save the audacity.cfg file.