UPGRADING TO VERSION 3

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I AM USING VERSION 2.4.0. AND WINDOWS 10. I UPGRADED TO VERSION 3 THEN TRIED TO OPEN A PROJECT BUT IT TOLD ME IT COULDN’T FIND THE DATA FILES SO I USED SYSTEM RESTORE TO TAKE ME BACK TO 2.4.0. HAS ANYONE ANY IDEA WHY THIS HAPPENED WITH VERSION 3?

KEN ROBB

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  1. Please do not use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. It is akin to SHOUTING! Thank you.

  2. Please provide more specifics. Are the data files located on a cloud drive ?

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You might benefit from this page I wrote yesterday for the soon to be upcoming Audacity 3.0.1:
https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Updating_from_Audacity_2.x_to_Audacity_3.x

and its sister page:
https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_2.x_AUP_Projects

Basically older projects from 2.4.x (or earlier are in two part

  1. an AUP file - effectively the project manager
  2. a _data folder which contains the audio data broken up into 6 second snippets of sound

You need both in order to be able to open an AUP project (in 2.4.x or 3.0.0). When you successfully open it in 3.0.0 a copy of the project is created in the new consolidated single AUP3 project file.

WC