Help: Can't Open Audacity Project

[Blakefred]

Every time I try to open this project, an error always pops up. It reads "Error: unclosed token at line 3". What should I do?

[Gale Andrews]

Please look at Help > About Audacity and give the full-three section version number of Audacity (for example, 1.3.12).

There is a problem in line 3 of the .aup file. The .aup can be edited but it would be safest if you made a copy of the .aup file and attached it so we can look at it. To do that, click "Upload attachment" underneath where you post your message replies.



Gale

[Blakefred]

I'm using Audacity 1.3.12. Here's the file.

[Gale Andrews]

I'm using Audacity 1.3.12. Here's the file.

The attached should "fix" it so that you will open an empty project window with a small selection region just before 4 minutes on the Timeline. There will be no tracks because there are none in the .aup file. Is that what you expect the project to be? Or did Audacity crash and the .aup got corrupted? Or were you editing it by hand?

If the "Electric feel 2_data" folder has .au data files, you will see warnings for those files as "orphan blockfiles" when opening the project.

Changes made:

• As the error says, the tag on line 3 (that starts with "< ") isn't closed - it lacks > at the end of the line, which I added back.
• Then the <tags/> tag is missing which has to be there even if there are no tags. Without that, there will be an error "no element found at line 4". I added it back.
• Then the closing </project> tag is missing. Without that there will be an error "no element found at line 5". I added it back.

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The current Beta is 1.3.14:
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... 1.3.14.exe

Please upgrade.

Gale