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Hey everyone. I have a problem almost identical to this one:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... out#p44528

When i open a file i can see all of the visual information for the audio tracks, but only small portions of it play. The audio will cut out at specific parts and never do all of the separate tracks play at any given time.

i don't think i've renamed any of the files or moved anything around. I have three .aup files in one directory that are all acting in this way. All the other .aup files in other directories are working fine. Is there any way to view the files that the .aup is expecting to find in the folder it created, at least that way i would know if i've lost anything or if i renamed any of the files accidentally.

Thanks.

look in the au folder
you can find a path to where the au files are

Open the <filename>.aup file in NotePad (it's an XML file, which is basically plain text).

You will see something like this:
(I've highlighted the bits that show where the data should be)

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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//audacityproject-1.3.0//DTD//EN" "http://audacityteam.org/xml/audacityproject-1.3.0.dtd" >
<project xmlns="http://audacityteam.org/xml/" projname="test2_data" version="1.3.0" audacityversion="1.3.13-alpha-May 2 2010" sel0="0.0000000000" sel1="30.0000000000" vpos="0" h="0.0000000000" zoom="15.5002100476" rate="44100">
<tags>
<tag name="id3v2" value="1"/>
</tags>
<wavetrack name="Audio Track" channel="2" linked="0" mute="0" solo="0" height="150" minimized="0" rate="44100" gain="1" pan="0">
<waveclip offset="0.00000000">
<sequence maxsamples="262144" sampleformat="262159" numsamples="1323000">
<waveblock start="0">
<simpleblockfile filename="e00004d8.au" len="262144" min="-0.8" max="0.8" rms="0.565686"/>
</waveblock>
<waveblock start="262144">
<simpleblockfile filename="e0000783.au" len="262144" min="-0.8" max="0.8" rms="0.565686"/>
</waveblock>
<waveblock start="524288">
<simpleblockfile filename="e000060c.au" len="262144" min="-0.8" max="0.8" rms="0.565686"/>
</waveblock>
....
....
....

<wavetrack name="mi_favorita-take1" channel="2" linked="0" mute="0" solo="0" height="150" minimized="0" rate="44100" gain="1" pan="0">
<waveclip offset="0.00000000">
<sequence maxsamples="262144" sampleformat="262159" numsamples="3453979">
<waveblock start="0">
<pcmaliasblockfile summaryfile="e00000f7.auf" aliasfile="/home/steve/Desktop/Guitar/mi_favorita-take1.flac" aliasstart="0" aliaslen="262144" aliaschannel="0" min="-0.325897" max="0.244476" rms="0.047709"/>
</waveblock>
<waveblock start="262144">
<pcmaliasblockfile summaryfile="e0000d08.auf" aliasfile="/home/steve/Desktop/Guitar/mi_favorita-take1.flac" aliasstart="262144" aliaslen="262144" aliaschannel="0" min="-0.286316" max="0.256775" rms="0.046079"/>
....
....

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The "simpleblockfile" n=with names like "e00004d8.au" are data files in a sub-folder of the "_data" folder.
When you save a project it creates a file "<filename>.aup" and a data folder <filename>_data". The "simple block files" are in there.

The "alias" files are external to the project. You may get some of these if you have imported WAV files into your project.

There's a good explanation here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/File_Management_Tips