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error message when trying to open selection in Praat

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error message when trying to open selection in Praat

Posted by anka at 2011-08-03 05:00

Hi,
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but I cannot open the selection in Praat and this is the message I get:

cannot open file Praat "executeD:\Temp\\openpraat-v3.praat"V:\SOCIOL~1\NZ-phonology\Edin_Pol\conversation\Edin_Pol_007&Edin_Edin_002_conversation
Edin_Pol_007&Edin_Pol_002_conversation.wav"
1425260 1426990
Script line 1 not performed or completed:
<<Read from file...Praat"executeD:\Temp\\openpraat-v3.praat"V:\SOCIOL~1\NZ-phonology\Edin_Pol\conversation\Edin_Pol_007&Edin_Edin_002_conversation
Edin_Pol_007&Edin_Pol_002_conversation.wav"
1425260 1426990>>Script not completed

Any idea what i'm doing wrong? I will be very very grateful for any help - I have never used Praat before, so it might be somethng simle, but I have not found any hints online.

thanks,

Anna

Re: error message when trying to open selection in Praat

Posted by hasloe at 2011-08-12 13:09

The problem lies in the folder with a white space in the name and starting with "SOCIOL". The name is converted in a Windows way using a tilde and a number. While this seems to works for the path to the applications (Praat or sendpraat), this apparently doesnot work when a file path is passed to the script.
We'll see if there is another solution for this problem, but you might want to consider storing your wav files in a folder without whitespaces in the complete path.

-Han

Re: Re: error message when trying to open selection in Praat

Posted by rabey at 2011-11-23 11:39

Hi,
I had the same problem, so I deleted all the whitespaces in all the folders, files... But still it doesn't work, I still get this error message:

Cannot open file „Praat“ execute
C:\Users\HP\.elan_data\openpraat-v3.praat
“C: \Uni\Promotion\Daten\wavmpgs\LH_1.wav“ 4332 4865“.
Script line 1 not performed or completed:
«Read from file… Praat “execute
C: \Users\HP\.elan_data\openpraat-v3.praat
“C: \Uni\Promotion\Daten\wavmpgs\LH_1.wav“ 4332 4865 »
Script “C:\Users\HP\Praat\message.txt” not completed.
Praat: message not completely handled.

Is there any help?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Rahel