Hi, there. So, I have a project that I spent a lot of hours on that I foolishly thought was being backed up automatically to an external disk. Well, it wasn’t, and this morning after a few crashes, I received the error message “Failed to read from a file in C” when I tried to open the project. No matter how many times I try to open it, it’s the same error. I’m worried that I lost all that progress, but I’m hopeful there’s some way to recover it.
I’m using Windows 10.0.1. My version of Audacity was 3.0.2 when I received the error. I updated to 3.0.3 to see if it would help, but it didn’t. I also ran diagnostics on my C drive and made a copy of the project folder to see if it made any difference. So far, no luck. I’ve tried googling and searching this forum, but I only see people receiving this error when their project is already open and they’re trying to export or add effects. Some people also say it can be a lack of hard drive storage, but I have plenty.
So this error is frequently caused by a damaged .aup3 file. I will be happy to look at your file for you if you wish to zip it up and upload it to a public file server. If you do this, post or PM me a link.
I have a WD external drive with automatic backup software, and I didn’t realize that the auto backup hadn’t been working for a little while. It’s my fault for not checking.
As for the crashes, it occasionally happens for me in Audacity, especially when the file gets to be large. Up until now it’s always recovered perfectly when I reopened the program.
This is not work, just frustration with google. So it is on its way again - it says just over 8 hours from now. So I’ll take a look then, and hopefully I’ll be able to post a link around that time.
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6 hours later: the upload is still on track.