not opening files

[ruks]

hi, i am new to audacity...using it to record interviews. tried it a month agao and it gave the same error message as below, luckily i had a backup on my iPod. but today i have done another interview, did a save and its saved on the desktop. i have no backup today and i get the message as below. i can see 2 folders on the desktp, one with the many hundred data fragments .au and the other folder has a .aup.bak file.
ben baglio is the user of the laptop and clare beck is the name i saved the file as. PLEASE HELP!!! i need this audio desperately....thanks a bunch

'Users/benbaglio/Desktop/clare beck interview#30F893_data/b00363.au'(error 2: No such file or directory)

[kozikowski]

<<<its saved on the desktop.>>>

No, it's not.

The Audacity Project Supervisory AUP File is on the desktop, but the rest of the project is in other files on other locations.

You probably want to get to the end of an interview and Export As WAV to get a single, stand-alone, high quality sound file. That's how I do it. Audacity only Saves multi-file Projects. I don't think I've ever used an Audacity Project for anything.

You can't move, rename, delete, change or do anything to your machine after you Save a Project. The structure of your computer is burned into a Project and if you change anything, the show will drop dead.

A common problem is people try to "clean up" or "organize" their show or move it to another computer or even another folder. Very few people succeed at that.

Can you move everything back where it was when you captured the interview? That's the easiest way out of your problem.

Are you using an Intel Mac with Leopard (OS-X 10.5)? Open Apple > About This Mac to see. If you are, that will give you a whole different set of problems.

Koz

[kozikowski]

The AUP file is a Project Supervisory File and has written in it all the names of all the files involved in the project and their locations. You can't change anything after you save a project and expect it to survive.

Koz