Missing oto files, some sounds not showing up

[E.Bear]

H! Haven't been here in a few years but I've recently been determined to finish otoing my old utau. It was all going fine until today, when I was trying to find a certain sound. It appears in my folder, I can open it and play it so its not corrupt or empty, but it just will not appear on the list of files in the utau program.

I thought, whatever I'll just add it manually into the oto.ini. Except its gone? All my otos for my different pitches are gone, even though they are almost fully otoed in utau and I can see all the settings for each sound in the program. The only oto I can see is the blank oto.ini in the main folder so that I can use all the banks at once.

I have tried moving the entire UTAU folder and the voice folder out of program files (x86) as I've seen that that can cause issues but nothing changed, they are still gone.

Does anyone know what's going on? How can the otos not be there but my utau works perfectly fine? Why wont certain sounds appear in the program?
Any help is appreciated

 

[E.Bear]

Oh god I don't know what I did but now all the files for ONLY my bank specifically are showing up as weird symbols, and she's not playing sound at all.

I have locale set to Japanese and other JP voicebanks I have downloaded are not doing this, literally just mine. Please help

 

[Kiyoteru]

If you have oto.ini files in the subfolders for each pitch, make sure they're saved with Shift-JIS encoding. You can specify that exact encoding using Notepad++ or VS Code. If you're using ordinary Notepad, save it as ANSI.

 

[E.Bear]

If you have oto.ini files in the subfolders for each pitch, make sure they're saved with Shift-JIS encoding. You can specify that exact encoding using Notepad++ or VS Code. If you're using ordinary Notepad, save it as ANSI.

thank you! i've found some old version as i literally have no idea where the current files went, and it seems to have fixed it :D

Post automatically merged: Wednesday at 4:51 PM

okay nevermind, whenever i move the voicebank back into the voice file it ****s it all up again. i guess for now I'll have to leave her somewhere else on my pc

Post automatically merged: Wednesday at 4:55 PM

for whatever reason the blank oto in the main folder reverts to UTF-8 when i move it into program files and just will not save as ANSI

 

[Suzuki Hoshi]

thank you! i've found some old version as i literally have no idea where the current files went, and it seems to have fixed it :D

Post automatically merged: Wednesday at 4:51 PM

okay nevermind, whenever i move the voicebank back into the voice file it ****s it all up again. i guess for now I'll have to leave her somewhere else on my pc

Post automatically merged: Wednesday at 4:55 PM

for whatever reason the blank oto in the main folder reverts to UTF-8 when i move it into program files and just will not save as ANSI

err....i don't know what to do about that.

 

[Kiyoteru]

You should permanently keep all of your UTAU files outside of Program Files, like the program and all your voicebanks. You can put the folder somewhere like Documents.