Unable to open audacuty project file :(

[Dipesh Basnet]

i recorded song with more than 15 vocal recorded and i saved whole project and turned my pc off after some hours when i try to open my file i'm getting this error
"Error Importing
audacity did not recognized the type of file'E:audacitymy song.aup'if it is uncompressed try importing it using"Import Raw"

above are the following error my whole project will be ruined if i'm not able to open my project plz help me...
p.s i tried importing raw but all i got is blank page

[steve]

"Open" for projects.
"Import" for audio files.

Audacity projects are not audio files. See here for more information about Audacity projects: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... jects.html

[Robert2]

I don’t know how smart Audacity would need to be to be able to identify the AUP file extension and open its own AUP (Project) files through drag & drop. From a non-programmer's point of view, this seems an easy thing to do. It would help a lot more than the current message inviting users to “try importing using Import Raw”, which could obviously never work!

[steve]

I don’t know how smart Audacity would need to be to be able to identify the AUP file extension and open its own AUP (Project) files through drag & drop. From a non-programmer's point of view, this seems an easy thing to do. It would help a lot more than the current message inviting users to “try importing using Import Raw”, which could obviously never work!

From what I've read, it gets rather complicated when taking into account the multiple ways of opening / importing files (including "drag & drop", file associations, menu commands, command line arguments, and platform dependent variations). What many of us would like would be a unitary project format (Audacity projects as one file rather than AUP + _data folder + possible dependencies), and so be able to drop the Open / Import distinction altogether.

In the meantime, I'm not sure how difficult it would be to make a more helpful error message when attempting to import an AUP file - I'll have a look into that.

[steve]

In the meantime, I'm not sure how difficult it would be to make a more helpful error message when attempting to import an AUP file - I'll have a look into that.

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It seems that it is very easy to improve the error message.
Patch attached.

ImportAupError.diff

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I'll move this to the "Adding Features" board so that it does not get lost.