Can't open file

glennzweig · Post by **glennzweig** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 1:58 am

I have a bit of an urgent matter. I've been editing a podcast file all day. Early on during the editing process I changed the name of the file. So let's say it was originally called John Doe.aup and I changed it to John Doe interview.aup. Just added that one word. I spent hours more editing that file and finally closed it. I was just trying to open it again and I get an error msg: "Couldn't find the project data folder: "John Doe interview_data". What's going on? Have I lost the entire file? Please help!!! Thank you.

glennzweig · Post by **glennzweig** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 2:18 am

Never mind. I found other similar issues on this forum and got it resolved.

Post by **kozikowski** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 2:27 am

Early on during the editing process I changed the name of the file.

How? The "official" name of the show is burned into the data of the AUP file. You can't arbitrarily change it outside of Audacity.

The show may open if you changed the name of the AUP file back to what it was.

This is an Audacity Project.

The two need to live in the same location or folder, they have to be named the same and it has to be the name you gave the show inside Audacity. You can't put the AUP file inside the _DATA folder.

Can you find that _DATA folder manually through a Windows search? Do you remember deleting it? If you can't find it, that may be the end of the show. The AUP file is the show manager. The actual sound is inside the _DATA folder.

Koz

Post by **kozikowski** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 2:29 am

The upcoming Audacity 3.0 doesn't save projects that way.

Koz

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