Re: [Audacity-devel] Can't read .aup file anymore

[Anthony A. O. <ai...@gm...>]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:38:21 -0700 (PDT), Matt Brubeck wrote:

>Otto Wyss wrote:
>
>> When I want to open an .aup file Audacity complains
>>
>>   Error: reference to invalid character number in line 2
>>
>> This happend with an .aup file which was recorded less than 2 weeks
>> ago with audacity of that time (sorry can't check the exact version
>> now).  How can I fix this error?
>
>This was caused by incorrect encoding of non-English characters (e.g.
>umlauts and accents) in the project file.   The bug that caused this was
>fixed in CVS on 2003-09-10.
>
>You can recover the file by opening it with a text editor, and changing
>the "projname" attribute on line 2 so that it does not contain any non-
>English characters, or the non-English characters are properly encoded
>for XML.  You may need to rename the data folder to match.  Fix any
>other encoding errors in the same way.

I'll add this to the FAQ. It may fix some stuff for older projects that
people have.

 Tony