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CANNOT OPEN FILE
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:24 pm
by IFFY
I recently backed up my audacity sound files to a portable HDD. I since then formatted the system the recording was made on. Now, whenever I try and open the audacity file on HDD, I cannot. I get an error message about source or something. What is going on? How can I open the file? Audacity files seem to stop working if they get moved.
Re: CANNOT OPEN FILE
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:33 pm
by jan.kolar
What did you backup?
Audacity project consists of
1. projectname.aup file
2. projectname_data directory
3. external ("imported") files.
.aup files is a small files that refers to sounds contained in _data.
If you used "import" with default settings, the sound was not copied but .aup refers to your .wav files.
Re: CANNOT OPEN FILE
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:55 pm
by steve
If you need to move Audacity projects around, there are
very important things that you need to know and understand about Audacity files:
http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index. ... ement_Tips