Unable to open aup3 Files

Audacity Help Forum macOS
1

I have the newest version and am being sent files I cannot open. Any suggestions?

This is my error:
{
“timestamp”: 1630432005,
“event_id”: “c8eebd934fc84b6cb72d306f73c60dc1”,
“platform”: “native”,
“release”: “audacity@3.0.4”,
“contexts”: {
“os”: {
“type”: “os”,
“name”: “Macintosh”,
“version”: “10.16.0”
}
},
“exception”: {
“values”: [
{
“type”: “Error_Opening_Project”,
“value”: “Failed to open database file:\n\n/My Podcast Files - Alian Delivery Tim Creasey Part ”,
“mechanism”: {
“type”: “runtime_error”,
“handled”: false,
“data”: {
“sqlite3.rc”: “10”,
“sqlite3.context”: “DBConnection::ModeConfig”,
“sqlite3.mode”: “PRAGMA .busy_timeout = 5000;PRAGMA .locking_mode = SHARED;PRAGMA .synchronous = NORMAL;PRAGMA .journal_mode = WAL;PRAGMA .wal_autocheckpoint = 0;”,
“log”: “13:46:45: DBConnection SetDBError\n\tErrorCode: 10\n\tLastError: Failed to set safe mode on primary connection to /My Podcast Files - Alian Delivery Tim Creasey Part \n\tLibraryError: disk O error\n13:46:45: DBConnection SetError\n\tErrorCode: 10\n\tLastError: Failed to open database file:\n\n/My Podcast Files - Alian Delivery Tim Creasey Part \n\tLibraryError: (10): disk O error\n”
}
}
}
]
}
}
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2

Did you try to open the files directly from Google Drive or download the files and try to open them from your local machine?

Koz

3

Just dowloaded to my Downloads folder and can open it. This is odd, I have virtual assistants working on these files and having to keep downloading and uploading will be a nightmare.

Any workaround?

4

If you wish, zip up the file, upload to a file sharing service and post or pm me a link. I’ll take a look at it.

5

The file works fine when downloaded, just not from Dropbox. Any reason why? Not sure it’s a file issue.

6

Your error “10” (“sqlite3.rc”: “10”) indicates an I/O error (SQLITE_IOERR) but doesn’t tell us much more. Perhaps there was a timeout…

At Managing Audacity Projects in the manual, it says:

You are > strongly > advised > NOT > to save your active project to an external USB stick/disk, networked storage or cloud storage as it is unlikely to be fast enough for satisfactory recording and editing.

7

I think I’ve seen mention of this before? SQLite complaining about “safe mode” on a network drive?

– Bill