How To Import Audacity Files From Another PC

[jmg429]

My hard drive crashed earlier tonight, but I was able to back up all of my .aup, .bak, and project files from Audacity. I was wondering if there is a way to import these files onto another PC's Audacity or are they non-transferable data files? If this is possible, will all of the settings (ie: volume, sequencing) remain the same as on my old PC?

If anyone could advise it would be much appreciated

[kozikowski]

It should be possible to open an Audacity Project as long as you have the AUP file and the /DATA folder in the same location. Your regular Audacity version and higher should open up the show.

What will kill you is if you used external music files in your show. Those will appear as blank segments in the performance unless you changed the Audacity default. It's possible to tell Audacity to copy all files inside itself for editing -- which is slower.

You can open up the AUP file and read it. It's in XML programming language. It will tell you where it's expecting to find all of its music files.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/aup1.jpg

Read down to where it says /Users/koz/Desktop/piano2.wav. That's the music file I used in this very simple show.

Koz

[steve]

I was wondering if there is a way to import these files onto another PC's Audacity

Yes you can, but as Koz pointed out there are potential hazards. See here for how to move projects safely: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects

[jmg429]

So I was able to move everything successfully from my old PC to another PC. I was wondering, are Audacity files (.AUP's) from a PC compatible on a Mac?

[steve]

Provided that there are no dependencies, I think Audacity projects should be compatible with an equivalent version of Audacity on different platforms. There can be problems when using different versions, particularly between ANSI and Unicode versions. I don't have a Mac to test on, so if you try this could you let us know how you get on.