ran out of disk space and now can't recover file

[maestroteague]

We use audacity to record our services at church, and Sunday our sound tech forgot to stop the recording at the end of the service. When I got in the next day, it had stopped because it had run out of disk space. I actually didn't see what was on the screen at that time (my pastor did), but the autosave is there. I first addressed the diskspace issue and deleted some older files to free up 5 gigs of space. I then tried to restart audacity, it asked me if I wanted to recover the file, I said yes, and got this error message:
Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 17414
I've done a little reading on the forum that said that this is due to an invalid character in the file. When I opened the AUP file with a text editor, this is what is in line 17413-17414:

min="0.001526" max="0.005859" rms="0.003748"/>
</recordingrecover</project>

I really don't know what I need to do to recover the audio that was recorded. I'm fairly computer savvy, but not very knowledgable about linux. I can follow directions well, though Can anyone walk me through what I need to do to recover the file/audio? Thanks.
Thanks in advance for your help.

[maestroteague]

I forgot to mention that I'm using Audacity 1.3.5 Beta (Unicode) and Kubuntu (not sure version number, couldn't find it quickly, but older, heron maybe?) with K Desktop 3.5.10.

[steve]

min="0.001526" max="0.005859" rms="0.003748"/>
</recordingrecover</project>

I can see at least one error there.

The Audacity AUP files are written in XML format. This format uses pairs of "tags" to separate different bits of text. Tags are always used in pairs - the opening tag is enclosed between chevrons like this:
<project>

and the closing tag is enclosed within chevrons, but with a forward slash after the first chevron, like this:
</project>

In the text you have posted, </recordingrecover looks like a closing tag, but has no chevron at the end.
Before modifying the AUP file, make a backup copy of it.

Try adding a ">" at the end of that word and see if the project will open - like this:
min="0.001526" max="0.005859" rms="0.003748"/>
</recordingrecover></project>

If it still does not open, put the AUP file into a ZIP archive and upload it to the forum (there is an "Upload" tab below the message compose window).