Audacity can't open files created by Audacity

[claude.valenti]

I exported some audio files as WAV using Audacity and now I'm trying to open them in Audacity but it says it doesn't recognise the file format. I've tired Open and Import and both have the same issue.
I've tried raw data and that is unusable white noise. I've downloaded and installed LAME and FFMPEG.

Any ideas?

 

[rgd1101]

can you play the wav file? could be it didn't save the file correctly or the file got corrupted

 

[claude.valenti]

can you play the wav file? could be it didn't save the file correctly or the file got corrupted

Dang!
Never occurred to me that Audacity may produce garbage! But that's the problem....large fail rate on exported tracks!

 

[claude.valenti]

I guess my next question is....why do I get such a high fail rate when exporting tracks?

 

[rgd1101]

Probably because not enough people paid the developer enough to fix the issue