Hello,
I am traveling and away from my home PC and have uploaded some AUP3 files to a Google Drive to continue work while away from home. Unfortunately, I am unable to open the files. I know that I should have exported them just in case, but since I can’t do that at this point, I was wondering if there is any work-around or fix for this.
I get the following error message when going to File>Open and selecting the aup files:
Project is in a read only directory
(Unable to create the required temporary files)
Here is the Error Log information:
ErrorCode: 14
LastError: Failed to set safe mode on primary connection to C:\Users\Carly\Documents\Audacity\abstract final cut.aup3
LibraryError: unable to open database file
14:23:52: sqlite3 message: (21) API call with NULL database connection pointer
14:23:52: sqlite3 message: (21) misuse at line 123174 of [7ebdfa80be]
14:23:52: DBConnection SetError
ErrorCode: 0
LastError: Project is in a read only directory
(Unable to create the required temporary files)
LibraryError: unable to open database file
Some other information that may be helpful:
Both machines run Windows 10.
I have updated the version of Audacity on this PC to the lastest version by completely uninstalling and reinstalling 3.0.2.
I am using File>Open to try to access the files, not “Import”.
I have tried running the program as administrator. I see the same errors.
If anyone has any ideas on what I could try to fix this problem, any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
ToneTest.aup3.zip (16.4 KB)
Can you open that? I had trouble managing the plain aup3 file, so I zipped it. Pull it down, unzip it and it should open and play. It’s 5 seconds of 400Hz tone.
When you are able to, find the “checksum” of the file that won’t open and compare it to the checksum of the file that does open.
A “checksum” allows you to see if a copy of a file is exactly the same as the original. (See: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/online-safety-when-downloading/#validate). I expect that you will find that either:
The checksums are different, indicating that the copy is a bad copy
or
Your “assumed to be good” original has the same problem.
A very unlikely possibility: Is the hdd in that machine formatted as FAT-32?
Windows uses NTFS by default, though there is an unlikely possibility that it could be formatted as FAT32 (more likely if it is a very old drive, or a computer that uses a flash card for storage rather than a hdd or ssd).
Hello,
I am unable to make the checksum comparison as I can’t access my home PC. However, the formatting is not the issue.
As of this morning, I am unable to open the Tone Test file. I am getting the same error.
Steve-
I tried opening it again with the same error, so I deleted and redownloaded (and extracted) the file once again.
Same error.
Here is a copy of the error log:
ErrorCode: 14
LastError: Failed to set safe mode on primary connection to C:\Users\Carly\Downloads\ToneTest.aup3\ToneTest.aup3
LibraryError: unable to open database file
15:23:20: sqlite3 message: (21) API call with NULL database connection pointer
15:23:20: sqlite3 message: (21) misuse at line 123174 of [7ebdfa80be]
15:23:20: DBConnection SetError
ErrorCode: 0
LastError: Project is in a read only directory
(Unable to create the required temporary files)
LibraryError: unable to open database file
“C:\Users\Carly\Downloads\ToneTest.aup3\ToneTest.aup3”
What !?
Why is “ToneTest.aup3” inside "C:\Users\Carly\Downloads[u]ToneTest.aup3[/u]"
How did you do that?
Ah … let me guess… this is a weird “Windows” thing where Windows makes it look like a ZIP file is extracted when it is really still inside the ZIP archive.
Perhaps someone more familiar with Windows can provide clear instructions for how to extract a ZIP archive on Windows.