Problem opening project : Can't recognize my file?

[jeff-boy5000]

Okay so my problem is :
I have a huge Audacity project. And I do those kind of projects often. But today, I just opened the project and BOOM, it says :
«Audacity didn't recognize this type of file 'Destination and name of my file'. If it is not compressed, try to import it using "Import Raw"»

What does this mean? Is there a way I can fix this?
If you don't understand my problem, ask me some questions about it, I'll reply right away.

Thanks!
jeff-boy5000

[billw58]

That's the message you get when you do File > Import > Audio and choose a .aup file, or drag and drop a .aup file onto an open Audacity project window. Try using File > Open on the .aup file.

-- Bill

[jeff-boy5000]

That's the message you get when you do File > Import > Audio and choose a .aup file, or drag and drop a .aup file onto an open Audacity project window. Try using File > Open on the .aup file.

-- Bill

That's what I'm doing. It's like if... the soft thought it was something else. And stuff.

[jeff-boy5000]

But I think I might know where it started. I wanted to change de the project and the data folder's name, so I remembered that someone in another forum told me to do that :
I opened the .aup file in Notepad, I changed the name of the project in this zone :
"http://audacityteam.org/xml/audacityproject-1.3.0.dtd" >
<project xmlns="http://audacityteam.org/xml/" projname="New Name of the File_data"

And I renamed the .aup project and the data folder this way.
Since, it didn't work, and I think it's because of that.

I tried to put its original name back, but it makes the same thing, every single time.
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DxH

[Gale Andrews]

Safest way to rename is open the project, File > Save Project As, then delete the original .aup file and _data folder.



Gale

[jeff-boy5000]

Yeah I know, but since I didn't have much space left and that my project was very big...

But still, is there a way I can fix the project so it still opens?

[billw58]

When you start editing the "projname" item in the .aup file you really have to be careful ... but you've found that out already

If the .aup file and the _data folder are in the same folder, have the same name, and the "projname" item in the .aup file is exactly the same as the _data folder name then it should work. E.g. file name is "myProject.aup"; folder name is "myProject_data" and in the .aup file you have projname="myProject.aup".

-- Bill

[jeff-boy5000]

It is actually the same thing as you say. It's like if Audacity thought it wasn't a project anymore. But it might be a code problem... if you want I can copy the part where I changed the characters so you could help me finding the problem.

[Gale Andrews]

It is actually the same thing as you say. It's like if Audacity thought it wasn't a project anymore. But it might be a code problem... if you want I can copy the part where I changed the characters so you could help me finding the problem.

I suggest you attach the .aup file ("Upload attachment" underneath the message Preview and Submit buttons). If you are really doing File > Open, the problem is not as simple as a mismatched project name. That would give you "unable to open _data folder".

For a start, does the project still have an .aup extension?


Gale

[jeff-boy5000]

For a start, does the project still have an .aup extension?

Gale

Yep, it does. Once I had a problem with lines in the project (Invalid Token thing) and I opened the file with Notepad so I could fix it. When I have problems like that, I save it as a .aup after fixing it on Notepad and it works as usual.