CAN'T OPEN SAVE PROJECT

[Bliss]

Thank you very much! I think now i got what is the error about. I am using Windows XP SP2, but the default language is Russian. I have been using Audacity 1.3.12. I could do operations in there, but as soon as i saved projects, i could not open them again, unless i did very simple operations. Now it turns out that I have been doing these 'simple' operations within one original track. But when I started adding new tracks, their default name was in Russian, so the program could not recognize them anymore. Now I have Audacity 1.3.13 Unicode and it works perfectly fine even with Russian track names.
I also tried to rename some other projects i have using notepad. But all lines there were messed up, so i just used [Ctrl+F] and looked for " <wavetrack name= " and fixed wrong symbols. After that i can open them! )))
But i still cannot open SuperHero-2 that is posted above, even though i put it into the same folder, and change name to original SuperHero. Actually i can open it, but here another kind of problem occurs.
The popup window says: "Project check detected 168 missing audio data (.au) blockfile(s), probably due to a bug, system crash, or accidental deletion. There is no way for Audacity to recover these missing files automatically."
I double-checked that SuperHero_data is in the same folder with the RIGHT and NEW SuperHero.aup without incorrect characters, but the problem still occurs. If i choose in given options 'treat missing files as silence' even more strange things happen. The two tracks that have Latin characters and were made of songs just dragged into Audacity, turn to solid silence, while the track i added myself, and which was later changed to 'Unknown' thanks to steve, remained intact!!! Everything turned upside down)
What should I do now?
Thank you for all posts, they really help. Sorry if i'm asking too many questions)

[steve]

There could be a problem with the file encoding. If you still have the original "SuperHero.aup" file, try changing the wavetrack names yourself (lines 1215 and 1268 - <wavetrack name="Çâóêîâàÿ äîðîæêà" )
It's also possible that with all the messing around trying to fix the problem that the corresponding .au data files have been inadvertently deleted, in which case you will need to delete the silent tracks and replace them.

[Bliss]

Yes, i tried all that. But after it says,

"Project check detected 168 missing audio data (.au) blockfile(s), probably due to a bug, system crash, or accidental deletion. There is no way for Audacity to recover these missing files automatically."

, the program also notes that "The Project check found 386 orphan blockfile(s). These files are unused and probably left over from a crash or some other bug." The only choices it gives me is to close project, ignore the files or delete them. I bet those unused files are the ones that are missing. But how can i tell that to the program? Any ideas please, otherwise my best project is dead!..

[steve]

If you open the AUP file in a text editor, you will see that each data block is listed,. For example:

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<simpleblockfile filename="e00005cc.au" len="262144" min="-0.8" max="0.8" rms="0.565683"/>

The data file here is called "e00005cc.au"

If I look in the _data folder of the same project I see there is a file "projectname_datae00d00e00005cc.au" that corresponds to the listing in the AUP file.
If the name(s) of the .AU data files do not match up, I doubt that you will be able to fix it.

It's an extremely long shot, but if you look at the .AU file names that are listed in the .AUP file for the track with the missing data, you could search your computer to see if those files exist anywhere. If they exist but are in the wrong place, then it may be possible to match them back up by correcting the file location.

[Bliss]

Turned all my computer inside out searching for couple of files and found none. It seems that fixing this whole problem would take more time than to redo the whole project again Anyway, great thanks to steve and billw58 for trying to figure it all out! i hope someone else who has problems would find this forum as i once did.

[Missdeer]

Help me please! I made a music for a show and i need it tomorrow! But i cant open it anymore, it says 'not well-formed on line 411'. What do i need to do? Someone help me please. If i dont have the music tomorrow, we cant do the show .
My english is really bad, so i hope u all understand me!! Please help!
I upload the file in this post, so i hope somebody can fix it. It is not finished yet, so i need to open it in audacity to finish it.

[bgravato]

Help me please! I made a music for a show and i need it tomorrow! But i cant open it anymore, it says 'not well-formed on line 411'. What do i need to do? Someone help me please. If i dont have the music tomorrow, we cant do the show .
My english is really bad, so i hope u all understand me!! Please help!
I upload the file in this post, so i hope somebody can fix it. It is not finished yet, so i need to open it in audacity to finish it.

That because of the '®' character in "Pirates of the Caribbean sound track® 1". Avoid using non-alphanumeric characters. Try to stick to a-z, A-Z and 0-9. Avoid slashes, spaces, symbols and everything else.

To fix this first make a backup copy of the .aup file (better even if you make a backup copy of the all project) just for safety.

Then open the .aup file in a text editor such as notepad.

Go to line 411 and remove that '®' character.

Save the file without changing the extension.

[bgravato]

That character also appears in line 439. Remove that one too.

You might find other "forbidden" characters that it might complain too, do the same procedure for those.

You might also consider upgrading to the latest 1.3.13 version.

Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported,
patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can
be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.