Unable to open project files

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I have been using Audacity 2.2.2 on windows 10 for digitising some C90 cassette tapes. I saved the projects using the “Save project as” option which sent them off to my documents folder. This week after a Windows 10 upgrade my PC had severe problems which resulted in me having to use the restore function. This had the effect of my PC loosing all apps including Audacity.

Having now reloaded my apps I find that I cannot retrieve a usable Audacity project file. It is only if I root through the sub directories that i end up with a 3 second clip of audio. Unfortunately I would have to join 2048 of these clips to return to a complete original recording.


For example:

  1. I Open a project file called Compilation_data
  2. Inside is a file e00
  3. Within this are 8 files d00 to d07
  4. Within each of these there are 256 audio files typical format e0000c1 which I can load into Audacity.

So at the moment the only way I can reproduce a complete file is to join each of the 256 audio files from each of the 8 sub directories d000 to d07. (2048 clips)

Please tell me there is a way round this problem. I assume in my original Audacity app there must have been a management file which would have organised my 2048 audio clips.

I have also tried the Import function without success.

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I assume in my original Audacity app there must have been a management file which would have organised my 2048 audio clips.

Right. That’s the AUP file. This is one complete project.

The project manager and the folder have to have the same name and they have to be in the same location or folder.

Search the machine for the AUP file. It’s difficult to impossible to put the show back together without the AUP file.

It is recommended that you export archive work as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit rather than Audacity Projects for just this reason. If Something Goes Wrong, WAV files are much more likely to survive. That’s the “Perfect” quality format of music on an Audio CD.

In addition, computer hygiene tells us to make copies of important work so it appears on two different devices. Cloud services count as one place, so that and your computer counts.

There is a recovery process assuming you have not tried to edit or change the projects in any way. Also, the recovery process may reverse the Left and Right sound at any time.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recovering_crashes_manually.html

Koz

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Have you tried rolling back the machine update? Roll it back, recover the work and then do the update.

Koz