Audacity Forum

A friend made a copy of his Audacity project and burned it to a DVD.

On one laptop, the .aup project file and the subdirectory with all the .au files are visible and accessible. The project file can be opened and used.

On another laptop, the .aup project file and related subdirectory are visible, but all the .au files are "invisible". That is, Windows Explorer does not list any of them. Audacity cannot open the project because it thinks the files are missing.

Both laptops are Windows XP. Both laptops can play DVDs.

What makes the files visible on one laptop and not the other?

Thanks, MikeC

The second machine may think the missing files are system files and thus are out of bounds.

Open Folder Options and tell Windows to stop hiding "Known File Types" and "System Files". Tell it to stop masking file extensions.

The next time you do a directory search, everything should be visible.

If they're still not visible, then you may have a marginally burned Data DVD and parts of it simply aren't burned enough to be visible on all computers.

But I'm betting on the file management thing.

Koz

Dear Koz,

The folder options changes didn't have any effect on viewing the files on the DVD.

Here's another problem on the same laptop: I downloaded the "Lame for Audacity" lame_enc.dll file and installed it on the "good" laptop and Audacity was able to use it to save my project in MP3 format.

On the "bad" laptop, I told Audacity where the file was (after installation) and got the error message the the MP3 plugin was not found! But I can view it with Windows Explorer, so I know the file exists. Audacity can't seem to open it.

Both laptops should be using Audacity 1.2.6.

Any ideas there?

Thanks again,
Mike