Missing 1 Audio Data

[kdoc]

While trying very, very, very hard to do everything correctly, once again I get when opening an aup file, "Missing 1 audio data due to a bug...etc. etc. I choose "Temporarily replace missing data with silence", it then opens fine, nothing is missing, and it works fine, but it won't allow me to do a "Save As" so I could then begin a new version (and preserve this one which works in spite of the bug). Even when I check Dependencies--there are none. So, is there any way to get rid of the problem, so I can then save this version, and start a "Save As" new version, to work in a slightly different direction. Incidentally, I have no idea how this happened in the first place, as I'm quite careful to keep all my original wav files in one folder, and don't touch them--it just happened out of the blue. (I'm at least thankful it didn't do what it has previously, whereby most of the sound disappeared when I opened it after that same message).

Incidentally, I have come up with one work-around, albeit time consuming, and somewhat klunky: Open a new audacity entirely, and one by one copy and paste one (previous version) track after another onto the new one. This keeps the segments within a track) correctly separated as they are on the original, but the various tracks then have to be realigned with each other. Then just rename this new aup version. But there must be a better way to recover this problem?

Thanks
kdoc

[waxcylinder]

If you just have a single stereo tack and are not doing multi-track recording then you should be able to Export the project as a WAV file. This WAV file can then be imported into any new project.

WC

[kdoc]

No, it's multitrack (5-6 tracks). Each track has short segments, interspersed by clear areas, and all of these are coordinated with those of the other 4-5 tracks.

kdoc

[steve]

I suggest trying the "Nightly Build" of Audacity - this has cured this type of problem for at least a couple of users.
You can download the nightly version here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... tly_Builds.

When the next official release of Audacity comes out, you should upgrade to the official release for audio work.

[kdoc]

OK, but I'd still be interested in why this has happened, how to prevent it, how to fix it once it occurs, and how now to be able to do a Save As, so I can continue in another direction, still keeping the current version?

kdoc

[steve]

In at least one case it was caused by a silent block file being added to blockFileHash in DirManager::CopyBlockFile() (which shouldn't
happen, because silent blocks have no files associated with them) --
that causes the error message to come up in loading when there's no actual error.

That problem was fixed by Leland L. on Sept. 19

If the problems persist with the latest code (the nightly version) then I'm sure the developers will be very interested as it will clearly be a different issue.