I’ve been searching everywhere on how to recover my project but no one else seems to have the same problem as me. I was editing my audio right before I was going to save it and I noticed it was acting up. I thought Audacity was going to crash and so I went to save it. Then for some reason it didn’t let me save my project I think it said something about it either not being writable or not having enough storage space. I checked my storage and I had more than enough so I tried just exporting it instead to see if that would work and then boom… Audacity force closed and prompted me with a message saying sorry for the inconvenience. I opened up Audacity crossing my fingers that I could recover it and when I clicked recover projects a warning poped up saying “Project check found file inconsistencies during automatic recovery”. I went under the help menu and clicked show log only to see this…
21:20:12: Audacity 2.1.3
21:20:12: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
21:20:12: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘avformat-55.dll’.
21:20:12: Looking up PATH environment variable…
21:20:12: PATH = ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\intel64\compiler;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Users\denni\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;’
21:20:12: Checking that ‘’ is in PATH…
21:20:12: FFmpeg directory is in PATH.
21:20:12: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
21:20:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
21:20:12: Loading avutil from ‘’.
21:20:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
21:20:12: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
21:20:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
21:20:12: Loading avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
21:20:12: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: the specified module could not be found.)
21:20:12: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
21:20:12: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
21:25:26: Warning: Orphan block file: ‘C:\Users\denni\AppData\Local\Audacity\SessionData\project15750\e00\d00\e0000005.au’
21:25:26: Warning: Orphan block file: ‘C:\Users\denni\AppData\Local\Audacity\SessionData\project15750\e00\d00\e0000006.au’
(there are a lot more orphan files here but they make this post have well over 300,000 characters and the most allowed on this thread is 60,000)
21:25:26: Warning: Orphan block file: ‘C:\Users\denni\AppData\Local\Audacity\SessionData\project15750\e00\d11\e0011f1c.au’
21:25:26: Warning: Orphan block file: ‘C:\Users\denni\AppData\Local\Audacity\SessionData\project15750\e00\d11\e0011f5d.au’
21:25:26: Warning: Project check ignored orphan block file(s). They will be deleted when project is saved.
21:25:26: Warning: Project check found file inconsistencies inspecting the loaded project data.
I have no clue what to do and can’t find any help anywhere…