New User Corrupt File

[skiwhe]

Hello,

I am a brand new user. I have been using Audicity over the past week learning how it works and how to edit in it. We are starting a new podcast and recorded the first show last night. Today, while editing, the file became corrupt. I had a backup copy that also was corrupt. I learned my lesson and should have immediately saved a raw audio version and then create a working file, but I didn’t do that.

When I try to open the file in Audacity, it says, “Audacity failed to read from a file in D:” and gives the following problem details:

{
“timestamp”: 1687812980,
“event_id”: “ca07c38761126643a6ed47b2e38547aa”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.3.2”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.22621”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “File_Error”,
“value”: “Audacity failed to read from a file in .”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false,
“data”: {
“sqlite3.rc”: “11”,
“sqlite3.context”: “SqliteSampleBlock::Load::step”
}
}
}
]
}
}

I have attempted the recover process using the AudRepair tools but I get the error “unable to open database file”

I am not sure what else to try. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have preemptively uploaded the file to my google drive if anyone is able to help:

Season 1 Episode 1.aup3

[Trebor]

I don’t have the life-expectancy to download a 6.8Gb file

aup3 file-sizes are unfeasibly large:
6.8Gb is enough for >5 hours of 32-bit stereo 44.1kHz audio.

[skiwhe]

I can appreciate that. Sorry. Any help in pointing me in the right direction to recover it?

[Trebor]

@skiwhe

Sorry.

It’s the developers of Audacity who should be sorry:
they are releasing unreliable software onto an unsuspecting public.

@skiwhe

Any help in pointing me in the right direction to recover it?

Apparently Jademan has had some success …

Corrupt or Otherwise Broken Audacity Project Recovery

A new 64-bit Windows/Linux command-line utility is available to help repair broken or corrupt 3.x.x .aup3 Audacity projects. These include projects that fail to open with Error codes 11, 13, 101, and/or with the message “Audacity failed to read from a file in X:”. The utility will not run under 32-bit Windows or under MacOS and it will not work with older 2.x.x .aup files and _data directories. Complete or partial recovery is not guaranteed. Before attempting a project “recovery”, it is best …

[jademan]

@skiwhe

I have attempted the recover process using the AudRepair tools but I get the error “unable to open database file”

From Trebor’s link: “If you see the message, “unable to open database file”, you have simply mistyped the file name or the .aup3 file name extension.”

[skiwhe]

I saw the instructions saying that I “simply mistyped the file name,” but I have tried mulitple times to ensure I did it all correctly. Maybe I’m missing something, but I typed it in exactly as listed.

[jademan]

@skiwhe

Maybe I’m missing something, but I typed it in exactly as listed.

Please post a screenshot showing the results of the “dir” command and all the following lines up to where you get the error.