"Audacity failed to read file on drive c:"

Zer01337 · Post by **Zer01337** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:40 am

importing to new project in new folder didn't work.

Drive D: is my blu ray... typical windows protocol for the last 25+ years is drive D: is your cd/dvd/blu ray device.

Post by **kozikowski** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 5:18 am

typical windows protocol for the last 25+ years is drive D: is your cd/dvd/blu ray device.

Except on my machines where C:\ and D:\ are two hard drives and E:\ is the optical drive.

I don't think we're any closer to finding out what happened to your work. The errors don't fall into any common patterns, and nothing stands out as being unusual or out of place.

While we have a terrific track record for solving problems, it's not 100%.

Koz

roadsterUK · Post by **roadsterUK** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:05 am

I can only reiterate that you should run integrity checks on your C drive immediately. Hard drives are by far the most common cause of failure and its far better to catch any problems before they become terminal. Also it only takes one unexpected power failure to corrupt the disk contents and the windows checking utility will put this right.

Zer01337 · Post by **Zer01337** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:26 am

I've now ran 3 disk scans on all drives, last was chkdsk /f.
No errors on drives detected.

Tried running Audacity under right click 'run as administrator' and then exporting to mp3... no dice.

At a loss at this point.

Post by **steve** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:13 pm

Perhaps you could upload the project somewhere (such as dropbox or sendspace) so that we can check it.
The easiest way to upload the entire project is to create a ZIP file containing both the project's "AUP" file and its "_data" folder, then upload the ZIP file somewhere.
(There's an article here about how to make a ZIP file on Windows 10: https://www.cedarville.edu/help/Windows ... iple-Files)

Post by **kozikowski** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:53 pm

And playing the forum card for a minute: if you do sort it out, post how you did it. A terrific number of our solutions are personal experiences or reports of outside solutions, not only notes from the Program Development Division.

Koz

roadsterUK · Post by **roadsterUK** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 8:27 am

Zer01337 wrote:I've now ran 3 disk scans on all drives, last was chkdsk /f.
No errors on drives detected.

Well that's good news. The next thing to suggest is that you may have inadvertently hits some file size limits of various kinds. Firstly confirm that you c: drive is formatted as NTFS, that will more or less eliminate any system limits on size or path name lengths. Then browse through all the data files in the project and look for anything that hits 4 GigaBytes or more. If there are any list them here and let the Audacity experts tell you whether there are any format limits for them.

bobwasab · Post by **bobwasab** » Sun Apr 22, 2018 12:03 pm

BUMP

i am dealing with this right now as well. pretty much all the same stuff -- i can't apply effects or export audio, though about a week ago i was able to. saved to my C: on windows 10, plenty o' space, i can play the audio but exporting and effecting don't work, etc. etc. etc. these are the two messages i get, first one is when i try to export, second is when i try to add effects:

Post by **steve** » Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:56 pm

Did you check to see if "C:\Users\Wasabi\Documents\Audacity\tape 1.wav" exists?
Does it exist?

MarkLundren · Post by **MarkLundren** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:03 am

I'm having the same problem

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