1.3 refuses to open files saved with 1.3.

This section is now closed.
Forum rules
Audacity 1.3.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.

The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
Locked
TheOddJob
Posts: 1
Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:38 am
Operating System: Please select

1.3 refuses to open files saved with 1.3.

Post by TheOddJob » Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:50 am

Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode), Windows XP.

I've now saved several projects in 1.3 that then refused to open in 1.3. A dialog patiently informs me that I am using 1.2, even though I think I deleted it a while back. Could be wrong about that. It tells me that I need to upgrade to 1.3 even though that's what I'm trying to open it with.

Put simply,

lolwut?

Any advice?

Irish
Forum Crew
Posts: 550
Joined: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:25 pm
Operating System: Please select

Re: 1.3 refuses to open files saved with 1.3.

Post by Irish » Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:02 am

Are you clicking on the .aup file in Windows Explorer to open it?

If you do that, and you have 1.2 on your machine, (even if you also have 1.3), it will try to open it in 1.2 because the .aup file extension is associated with 1.2 in the Windows registry.
The registry entries can be deleted, BUT DON'T GO EDITING THE REGISTRY UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. You can very easily make your computer inoperable. There are instructions on how to do it, but I can't find them just now ...

The work-around is to launch Audacity 1.3 and open the project from the File menu.

POL

Locked