I’m having trouble opening a project file I saved yesterday. A quick scan of the forums shows this is a common problem, but I haven’t seen an issue exactly like mine.
When I open the project, I get an error message telling me that it recognizes the file as an Audacity project, and then tells me to open it (basically doing what I just did).
I see that the main cause for project file problems is moving them and the data folder around, by I’ve left both of them in their original place, in the same destination.
I’m using Audacity 2.1.3. I have saved the files not in my C drive, but in the partition. Does that normally cause an issue?
Sorry, I’m not great with terminology. My hard disk has multiple partitions, and I’ve installed audacity and saved the project files to the D: drive. However I have a previous file saved there that opens fine, so I don’t that’s what’s causing this issue.
Sorry to say, it’s much like the one in the other post, it’s just full of “NULL” bytes and so is not recoverable.
I’m not sure why this happens, though I’ve seen it a few times. My suspicion is that Windows, or a security product running on Windows, may be clearing “unused” data when the computer is asleep. Do you know if your computer went to sleep before the project was saved?
Well I did save the project originally, put the computer to sleep, and came back later to continue working. All was fine, but the second I put the computer to sleep I don’t know if I saved it or not.
I guess the best advice to take from this is to save and close the program before closing the laptop lid…
