Audacity Forum

Hi, Gale! I got some time, and sat down to follow your directions. Remembering you'd mentioned to restart my computer, I did that before I came to the forum for the steps. Well, I restarted and then opened Audacity, and looked at the files on my hard drive--and everything was back to normal! Everything I needed was in the folder on the hard drive. I had a bunch of copies, I think they must have been, so I did do more deleting, but I have now all three chapters in aup and data forms, and I made a wav file for each chapter. My dropbox folder did not have the same luck. It seemed like when I saved as the aup file, it didn't trigger the creation of the folder called _data. And I couldn't 'load' the _data file to save as it to dropbox. So--I was able to make the wav files and save--no not save! export! the file to dropbox as well as my hard drive. So I believe I understand they're safe that way, I can change them to MP3 files for the eventual audio book.

I think I have it straight enough to take on chapter four. Things that tripped me up, like Save does not get hot until you make some change in the file. Save As takes you to an unfortunate screen where you can't tell where you are, your computer files or your dropbox files. And the 'two kinds of save,' Save and Export. I think I have it straight now, not to screw it up from here on.

Thank you so much. You wrote all those good steps, and I never got to them, with the re-start curing things! But some other person may see the thread and benefit from your efforts. Thanks again!

I'm glad you were able to get things worked out.

I think there is an Audacity bug there that sometimes it can't save projects (or other XML type files) when it has no issue exporting an audio file to the exact same folder. For whatever reason, reboot cures that.

Jan B. wrote:My dropbox folder did not have the same luck. It seemed like when I saved as the aup file, it didn't trigger the creation of the folder called _data. And I couldn't 'load' the _data file to save as it to dropbox. So--I was able to make the wav files and save--no not save! export! the file to dropbox as well as my hard drive. So I believe I understand they're safe that way, I can change them to MP3 files for the eventual audio book.

It is often best to make a ZIP file containing the AUP file and _data folder if you want to store projects on Dropbox. It is much simpler to retrieve them that way - you can't download folders and subfolders to retrieve, only files.

Jan B. wrote:I think I have it straight enough to take on chapter four. Things that tripped me up, like Save does not get hot until you make some change in the file. Save As takes you to an unfortunate screen where you can't tell where you are, your computer files or your dropbox files.

Save Project As is a standard Windows file save dialogue. If you are not sure where you are, click the downwards-pointing arrow at the right edge of the "Save in:" dropdown (at the top).


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