Importing labels: "one or more saved labels could not be read"

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hello,

I am using a newly-downloaded version of Audacity 2.2.2 on a new Windows 10 laptop. On a previous laptop (assuming also a previous version of Audacity) I was able to run the following task without any issues.

I have a .txt file (uploaded to this post) that I want to import. I go to File > Import > Labels and click on the file, but I get the error message “one or more saved labels could not be read”. The bar for the labels comes up below my sound file, but it is empty.

Any suggestions to fix this would be most welcome!

Many thanks!
07_11.txt (152 Bytes)

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Labels have had troubles with punctuation marks. Try a test without the colons.

Koz

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That doesn’t work, unfortunately.

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The numbers and the label text must be separated by tabs. Yours are separated by spaces.
For more info, see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/importing_and_exporting_labels.html

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I even copied the example in the link and got the same error.

I’m running Audacity 3.7.5 from a snap install in KDE Neon (Debian based) Linux. I tried creating a short list in the program, exported it and then imported it and it worked. I then copied one of the lines in the list, pasted it as the last line and edited it in a text editor and the import failed.

Any ideas? I’m stumped. At first I thought it might be the editor I was using, but I tried several with the same result. Any help would be appreciated.

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UPDATE. DOH! I opened one of the text editor created lists that previously failed in LibreOffice Writer and ensured all tabs were tabs and not spaces, save it and it worked. I never would have thought a word processing program would do better than a text editor for a data file. Hope this helps someone.