CAN'T OPEN SAVE PROJECT

[ZIMMERMUZIC]

WHEN i TRY TO OPEN THE PROJECT I SAVED A DOCUMENT FOLDER COMES UP WHIT THE CORRECT PROJECT NAME WITH A BUNCH OF DATA FILES IN IT. I CAN NOT OPEN THE WHOLE PROJECT ONLY SOUND BITS AT A TIME

[ttyR2]

Did you try to open the .aup file that represents the project itself? Or the individual data files? You don't want to open the .au files.

[kozikowski]

He/She is correct. However, don't click on the AUP file. Open Audacity first and File > Open > the AUP file. I don't know why it makes a difference--it shouldn't--but it does.

Audacity doesn't "Save" sound files. To get one single sound file of your whole show, Export As WAV, and do it before you turn your computer off or close Audacity.

Koz

[steve]

For more information about Audacity projects, read this: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ement_Tips

[ZIMMERMUZIC]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!! It took time to get back to the forum. I found the .aup file in my documents directory and the project file came up when I opened it in audacity, just like you all explained. Thanks for the forum help and the online help site you hooked me up with.

[Bliss]

Hey! Help me Please!!! When I try to open an AUP file it says "Error: not well-formed (invalid token) in line 1215" or some other number. How can i fix it? Helppp please!

[steve]

There is an invalid character in the AUP file.
Please check the exact line number that is in the error message, then post the AUP file to the forum (use the "Upload Attachment" feature below the "compose message" window.)

[Bliss]

Ok, thank you! The 'invalid token' is in line 1215 for this file, but for each project it's different. And why does it always generate invalid characters so as soon as i save and close the file, there is no way back to it?

[billw58]

Here's the start of line 1215

<wavetrack name="«‚ÛÍÓ‚‡ˇ ‰ÓÓÊ͇"

So it would be different for each project since this is the track name that should appear in the Track Control Panel.

I see you are using Audacity 1.2. What operating system are you using? Window experts will have to chime in here - this may be an ANSI/Unicode thing.

-- Bill

[steve]

The problem is that you are using invalid characters in track names.
In this case, the track name appears to be:

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Çâóêîâàÿ äîðîæêà

Which I presume is a series of non-Latin characters?

Audacity 1.2.x does not support Unicode characters, so track names, file names and metadata (ID3 tags) must only use standard ascii characters. To be on the safe side stick to "letters, numbers, hyphen, underscore and space".

If you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.13 then you will probably be able to use other characters in file names, but it will not solve the problem for any existing Audacity 1.2.x Projects as they will ANSI encoded and not Unicode. To fix any old Projects that you may have you will need to open them in a plain text editor (for example NotePad or NotePad++ then find the invalid characters and change them, then save the file.

I've changed the invalid characters in this AUP file so that the track name is now "Unknown".
If you put this file in the same folder as the original AUP file you should be able to open it.