Corrupted Aup3 file with no error message

Hi guys.
I know lots of people usually ask if it’s possible to recover a corrupted aup3 file, but they usually have an error message. I don’t.

Yesterday I was exporting a project to mp3, and Audacity crashed.
Now, and since yesterday. all the time I try to open the project file, it says “Error opening project” but without message.
This is the log file of now trying to open the file.

09:26:14: Audacity 3.0.0
09:26:14: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries...
09:26:14: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'.
09:26:14: Looking up PATH environment variable...
09:26:14: PATH = 'C:\Program Files\copasi.org\COPASI 4.27.217\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\mingw-w64\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\Bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\iCLS\;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\iCLS\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\120\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\130\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DTS\Binn\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\Azure Data Studio\bin;C:\Program Files\PuTTY\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Portugal Identity Card\;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2018.3\bin;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.3\bin;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Programs\Fiddler;C:\Program Files\heroku\bin;C:\Program Files\Azure Data Studio\bin;C:\Users\Souocare\.dotnet\tools'
09:26:14: Temporarily prepending ';' to PATH...
09:26:14: Checking for monolithic avformat from 'avformat-55.dll'.
09:26:14: Error: Failed to load shared library 'avformat-55.dll' (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
09:26:14: Loading avutil from ''.
09:26:14: Error: Failed to load shared library '.dll' (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
09:26:14: Loading avcodec from ''.
09:26:14: Error: Failed to load shared library '.dll' (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
09:26:14: Loading avformat from 'avformat-55.dll'.
09:26:14: Error: Failed to load shared library 'avformat-55.dll' (error 126: The specified module could not be found.)
09:26:14: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
09:26:14: Returning PATH to previous setting: C:\Program Files\copasi.org\COPASI 4.27.217\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\mingw-w64\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\Bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\iCLS\;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\iCLS\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\120\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\130\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DTS\Binn\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\Azure Data Studio\bin;C:\Program Files\PuTTY\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Portugal Identity Card\;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2018.3\bin;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.3\bin;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Souocare\AppData\Local\Programs\Fiddler;C:\Program Files\heroku\bin;C:\Program Files\Azure Data Studio\bin;C:\Users\Souocare\.dotnet\tools
09:26:14: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
09:26:16: Warning: Cleanup of orphan blocks failed
09:26:16: Error: Could not parse file "E:\Podcast\ep 5 - miguel villa de brito\audiomeu.aup3". 
Error:

And yes, it doesn’t show anything after the “Error” text.

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks!

I have reported this to the developers on our Discord chat.

We note that you are on 3.0.0 that is known to be buggy. Please upgrade to the latest release 3.0.3 (this will almost certainly not recover your project, but it may stop it happening again).

You can get 3.0.3 from here on our Website:
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

Peter.