I get the error message still when I try to open Audacity with a .wav program (what I meant by opening Audacity with a .wav file Jeannie).
I would probably corrupt the file though if I tried to get around that.
I am updating to a more recent version.
The version I have is a 1.2.6.
I downloaded this version of Audacity better than a year ago.

Thanks for the tips.