Error opening project

[kozikowski]

<<<I can open other audacity projects but not this particular one>>>

That's very different from the impression we got back at the beginning. So you have a damaged Project and need a way to reconstruct it.

Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery

Did we ever find out how full your System Hard Drive is? A full drive (over 90%) will create problems like this.

Koz

[Steve.h]

Thank you Koz,

I may have said .au files, but really I've always used the.aup files only. Never have I moved stuff around in that .au file, I can't imagine what I'd go in there for. Tried your method of making a new recording (though I don't know what you mean about a new or clean time line), copied, pasted etc., saved, even saved as a WAV file just to try it, and shut down the app and restarted the system and opened the file through the menu as prescribed: same crap, no different. This is consistent with every new recording I create. I'm not just trying to open an old project. BTW, the WAV file of the same recording came out as loud static, no discernible speech. Tell me if I'm wrong, but, I've always created the file, did edits, if I had to come back to it later, save; and when it was ready, I'd export to one the common formats (AIFF, WAV or mp3). Should I have been doing things differently? Typically, I'm in the file until I'm ready to export, usually as mp3, saving along the way; but if I need to open it for any reason, it doesn't want to hear about it: duplicate attribute on Line 7.

[kozikowski]

<<<Should I have been doing things differently? >>>

You appear to be doing everything perfectly.

That's too bad. I gotta go back and read all that again and see if anything jumps out at me.

Have you gone into Disk Utilities and checked your hard drive for errors?

Koz

[Steve.h]

Yes, that was one of the ideas presented earlier, I believe, and I followed it with no changes. Does anyone have any idea what process takes place that consistently affects the "code," I guess, at that particular spot? Could it be in the process of saving? On my system it's line 7 but on the other guy's it line 11. Perhaps that's a clue? I've really liked the program, I'd hate to change.

Thanks again.

[kozikowski]

<<<This is consistent with every new recording I create.>>>

Right. Which is why I actually said to bring one of my known, good, working sound files down and work with that instead of something you made fresh. This effectively divides your system in half and gives us a much better idea which side is failing.

So once again. Pull piano2.wav down from here...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

Launch Audacity and File > Open > piano2.wav. Do not Import anything. The file should open and play just fine. Now go to town on that file. Cut a couple of times, copy and paste, apply a filter. Only use that one sound file. Do Not involve anything you created. Export As WAV.

Let us know.

Koz

[kozikowski]

What are your Audacity Preference settings? 44100, 16-bit, Stereo?

Koz

[Steve.h]

Preferences are:

44100
24-bit

Fast Sync - None
High Quality Sinc - Triangle

[kozikowski]

Some versions of Audacity on some Macs have trouble with 24-bit. Reset the preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo and restart Audacity. See if the problems don't vanish. You can change back and experiment with it later.

<<<No way to download it>>>

Right-click on the filename? Wait until it downloads for playing and then File > Save? No, wait, it's File > Save Page As... on FireFox.

Koz

[prtc]

I run into the same problem today, except that it complained about line 12. After a while I decided to open the .aup file in a text editor (.aup is just a text file) and saw that line 12 was just a tag COMMENT field. I simply deleted the line, and done! Audacity is opening my project again...

[prtc]

see, your line 7 is (if i counted it right):

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

and I guess it should be something like <tag name="ARTIST" value="ARTIST"/> (and not 2 times "name"). just delete (or edit) the line in a text editor and try to open the project, let us know.