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Hello,

I’ve been working with Audacity for about a month and have encountered no problems until today. I simply tried to open my audacity project but it told me this at first : Audacity can’t open because it is already opened with another file, however I could not find this other file. After several attempts I managed to open something but a window came saying that I had 41 orphan black files.

Now I all the work I have done is silent( 13min30sec). I have all my soundtracks but there aren’t any waves anymore, they are juste vertical lines.
Can somebody please help me because this is an urgent project that I have to give to validate the end of high school

Thank you very much

Grace and peace,

I am subscribing to this post, as I am in a similar situation. I am using Aud 2.3.2 on Mac 10.13.6 right now.

Searching the forum, I found an old post (viewtopic.php?f=47&t=81271) which is closer to what happened to me than this OP. But, I'll explain it here.

I opened a multi-track file that I'd worked on previously. It was not responding for over :10 min, so I forced quit, as that is not typical at all. I then reopened the .aup file, and saw the "orphaned files" error, which is quite typical in my experience. So, I ignored it. I was talking to my co-host, so didn't truly take stock in the other error messages. But, as I was unable to get to the project, I closed Audacity again. When I did, I saw all the waveforms go to silent just before closing. When I opened it back, I got just as OP described: all tracks silenced. It's as if I hit Select All and Command + L on the entire project.

I've used Audacity for three years on a Windows machine, and only the last six months on a Mac. Auto-recovery has always been seamless for me. I'm not at all sure what to do here, and there is some valuable radio recording I am desperately trying to get to. I'm praying for the right person to see this post to simply talk me through how to navigate both me and OP through our situation. Thank you in advance!


Blessings,
Ryland

anl wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2020 5:06 pm

they are juste vertical lines.

Please post a screenshot of that.