You’re welcome - well, thank the developers, anyway. I had a program I developed that helped to extract the good parts of a project. Unfortunately, with recent updates to Audacity it did not work as well as it did. Fortunately, one of the developers sent me a new, improved, tool as a Christmas present. 
It is still a little bit early to do this, but if the tool pans out, I am hoping we may be able to talk the developer into making the tool available for anyone to use.
I’d much rather they fixed the problem at source - so that it just does not happen and with no need for such repairs 
Peter.
Hey, Jademan!! can you help me with a file? i´m with a similar problem. This message shows when i try to open the project file on my extern hd. thanks
“timestamp”: 1687289715,
“event_id”: “d22fa1004c17c040897263383daa39e9”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.3.3”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Windows”,
“version”: “10.0.19045”
}
},
“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”
}
}
}
]
}
}
Where were you saving the Project? Local Drive C:?
Is there enough room?
I wouldn’t do any more production until you resolve what happened.
Koz
I am honored that you asked. The error code 11 verifies that your error is caused by a corrupted database.
Fortunately, database recovery is something you can can do yourself and has a high recovery success rate. Everything you need is in the first post here: Corrupt or Otherwise Broken Audacity Project Recovery
Mr Jademan!!
I put the Command 1. Type “audacity-project-tools -drop_autosave broken.aup3”
But it doesn’t work.
Help me please!! I have the file on my pc. Can I send you to check!?
Do you get an error message?