Are you saying that you failed to reproduce the problem or that the .aup3 file failed to save or failed to save properly?
Are all .aup3 files you create broken?
If you have a consistent way to create a “broken” .aup3 file, please post the files and give us the steps to recreate the issue. Does it also fail with Audacity 3.0.3 RC03: Release Audacity 3.0.3 RC3 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
I can reproduce the problem. If i save the project, there’s a new window called “Compile Project” wich wasn’t there before. If this window comes, all files i open are empty.
Reproduce: Screenshot 10:32:11 When i open this 3 files, they are okay and not empty. Screenshot 10:41:33 Then i opened “Mandela Konzert Teil 1” and “Mandela Konzert Teil 2” and copied “Teil 1” into “Teil 2”. You see the result in “Screenshot 10:47:48”. Then saved in file you see in “Screenshot 10:48:55”; 3,89 GB. When i save the project, there’s a new window called “Compile Project” wich wasn’t there before. Screenshot 10:49:47 This Screenshot shows the opened file wich is empty. Screenshot 10:50:58 This Screenshot shows that the file has only 328 KB.
Every Audacity*aup3-file i open is empty now. See Screenshot 11:05:29 and Screenshot 11:08:20.
Hi. I’m using Mac OS 13.13, High Sierra, and I had that problem: after saved some files (aup3), when I reopened, they look empty, and there is no horizontal bar for the window, all record tracks are empty!!, and if I exit Audacity at that moment, (without any question about saving the file) the size of file will be now 328 Kb.
What I just came to do is NOT exit in the normal way. In the apple menu I used Force Exit for Audacity, and then my aup3 file has it original size. After that, I reopen the file and it is perfect, exactly as I let it last time.
This is not a real solution, but is a way to NOT lOST hours of a job!!
Fascinating. So Save an AUP3 project in the normal way and then tell the Mac to crash out of Audacity instead of letting it close normally preserves the show.
You’re right. You can’t do that constantly because it leaves trash around and you really should restart the Mac every time you do so it can clean itself up.
There is one other note from here.
“Screenshot 10:48:55”; 3,89 GB.
That’s dangerously close to the 4GB limit on many popular USB sticks. Suddenly turning up with a super tiny 328 Kb show could be the amount that the completed show exceeded 4GB. The addressing system runs out of steam at 4GB and starts the counter over again at 0KB.
It’s possible (I’m making all this up now) that causing Audacity to crash leaves the show under 4GB and working.
In my case, it only happens when I open a AUP3 project via the Cmd-O keyboard shortcut.
@Baum123:
– How did you open your files?
– Did you try different (other) ways to open your project file like via Menu, drag AUP3 on App icon, double-click on AUP3-file?
Okay, we have identified the cause: On macOS, if you have your language set to something that doesn’t use a dot as the decimal point (but eg a comma instead) and you use cmd+o to open it, and when there’s no other project window open does this bug occur.
We also found a fix for it which we’re testing now, and once we made sure this fix works as expected, we’ll try to get this fix out to you ASAP.
Until then, the workarounds are
Don’t use cmd+o to open your projects (use drag’n’drop, opening the project from the finder, etc.), or