My pc crashed while Audacity was open. All of my saved files in the project disappeared. The weird thing is, everything I had done that day, that was not saved, is still there. (The audio files are, but Audacity doesn’t know what to do with hem, I asume 'cause the actual placement was never saved.)
Why would files that are already saved simply disappear?
Is there any way whatsoever to get these back? I’m missing 602 or so files (according to Audacity). Where could they have gone? There’s also 726 orphan files, but when I open them manually they’re all from today (aka trash). But I couldn’t care less for those. Already bought and tried easeUS for recovering out of desperation. It recovered 100 or so files, but there’s still no sound.
If there’s no way to undo this, could someone explain why this even happened? Why’d it delete my files just because my pc crashed. Every other program I’ve used I just open my previous save and I’ve lost an hour’s work, not 50.
It did ask me to get files from the Appdata temp recovery, but that didn’t work. I assumed I could just open the previous save though, so I declined after a few tries. Dumb idea. Now those files are gone too.
In advance, thanks. I’m sort of desperate, this thing is going to be nearly impossible to re-create.
Error log:
22:05:19: Audacity 2.1.3
22:05:19: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
22:05:19: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘avformat-55.dll’.
22:05:19: Looking up PATH environment variable…
22:05:19: PATH = ‘C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Users\Joakim\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;’
22:05:19: Checking that ‘’ is in PATH…
22:05:19: FFmpeg directory is in PATH.
22:05:19: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
22:05:19: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: den angitte modulen ble ikke funnet.)
22:05:19: Loading avutil from ‘’.
22:05:19: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: den angitte modulen ble ikke funnet.)
22:05:19: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
22:05:19: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: den angitte modulen ble ikke funnet.)
22:05:19: Loading avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
22:05:19: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: den angitte modulen ble ikke funnet.)
22:05:19: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
22:05:19: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
22:05:20: Warning: Missing data block file: ‘C:\Users\Joakim\Desktop\lost jead head_data\e00\d04\e0004bbd.au’
(Then there¨’s another billion missing files)