Will Not Open Project File

[treetah]

Hello. Recently I've been using Audacity 1.3.7.1 to create a musical mix for my significant other's birthday (two days away). I was up pretty late into the night finishing the mix, and I finally finished it-- 60 minutes long, with about 11 stereo tracks. It has been an on-going project so I've saved, closed, then re-opened the project file successfully many time. However, this morning, when I tried to open the project file I received a error message saying:

Error Opening Project
Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 7

Is there anyway to recover the project file? I've been working on this mix for about a month and there is absolutely no way I can recreate it from scratch. Her birthday is in two days so please let me know what you come up with.

Thanks
- treetah

[steve]

Is there anyway to recover the project file?

You may be lucky.

First, read this so that you understand what is going on:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ement_Tips
Make a backup copy the Audacity Project file (filename.aup) and the data folder (filename_data)

Now open the original .AUP file in a text editor.
Switch off word-wrap and look for line number 7.

You will probably see a file name or a folder name that contains a non-standard character. File names and folder names should only contain letters, number, space, hyphen, underscore but no other characters. If you find the illegal character you will need to change or remove it, and make an identical change to the file or folder to which it refers.

For example, if you see something like

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aliasfile="/home/stf/Desktop/Great'st Hits.wav"

You would need to rename the file "Great'st Hits.wav" so that it does not have an apostrophe in it (for example: "Greatst Hits.wav") and make an identical change in the .AUP file.

If you can't find the offending character(s),copy and paste the first 10 lines or so into your reply.

[treetah]

Hope that's right.

<?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="FINAL_data" version="1.3.0" audacityversion="1.3.7" sel0="2637.0835416700" sel1="2895.3580000033" vpos="784" h="0.0000000000" zoom="0.2957575392" rate="44100">
<tags>
<tag name="id3v2" value="1"/>
<tag name="GENRE" value="Rock"/>
<tag name="ARTIST" value="Casablanca"/>
<tag name="TRACKNUMBER" value="11"/>
<tag name="TITLE" value="Starlight"/>
<tag name="Full Name" value="Airport Finale/Here&apos;s Looking At You Kid1"/>
<tag name="YEAR" value="2007"/>
<tag name="Software" value="pad "/>
<tag name="Copyright" name="Copyright"/>
<tag name="ALBUM" value="Casablanca"/>
<tag name="COMMENTS" value=" 000013D4 0000108E 000049A5 00004ADB 00035B8A 00035B8A 00008000 00008000 0000EA9F 00024A05"/>
</tags>
<wavetrack name="Dragster Wave 1" channel="0" linked="1"

[steve]

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<tag name="ARTIST" value="Casablanca"/>

Last 3 characters after "Casablanca are the problem.
I don't know what it will look like on your computer, but there are 3 control characters after the final "a".
Change it to

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<tag name="ARTIST" value="Casablanca"/>

[kozikowski]

“Do not ask for whom the ^G tolls, it tolls for thee,” with apologies to John Donne.

Koz