Here’s what happened:
So the main .AUP file got corrupted. It was a 16 hour audio file and I think it was just too large for my Mac’s Audacity software to ever handle reopening.
First Audacity would freeze & crash when I tried to open the giant audio project, eventually after enough tries (and repeatedly uninstalling and installing Audacity) I eventually got a popup that told me my audio project was damaged and if I wanted the program to attempt repair. I accepted. Than my audio project finally opened without freezing as a completely BLANK project. I have 16 hours of blank nothingness now. So I don’t think the original .AUP project file can ever be restored.
However, to my delight I discovered the file_data folder is filled with fully functional audio recordings. <3 I noticed all these mini audio files are only 6 seconds long. It would be very tedious, but I’m hoping I can piece all these 6 second audio file recordings back together into one project.
*** So I wondering what is the ordering of the file_data files? ***
I.E. First I went to d00 (the first folder) than clicked on the first file (e0000000.au) than I copied that 6sec audio into a project. Than I went to e000000a.au (the second file in its current order in the d00 folder) and pasted it right after the e0000000.au clip in the new project. Than I played the two audio files combined. And well I don’t know, the recorded sentence didn’t sound right. As if these two .au files don’t go next to eachother, like maybe there are a few seconds missing between them?
So I wondering if someone can tell me how these files & folders are sequenced, so I can manually put all audio clips back together in the right order.