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Ah ok I understand.

Thanks for taking the time to try to help me with this Steve, I appreciate it,

Josh

It was definitely created with version 2.4.2

Shame.

The thing is they aren't all completely silent. I found these ones just randomly selecting and they still have audio. They are clearly the cello part distorted to a lower octave. Most of them I open are blank though.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this with me,
Josh

Attached

ls -R 1_data eff 1_data/eff: d10 d11 d12 d1e d1f d20 d21 d22 1_data/eff/d10: eff10009.au eff1038d.au eff10687.au eff10963.au eff10d1c.au eff1000c.au eff10396.au eff1068e.au eff10966.au eff10d1f.au eff10013.au eff103aa.au eff10699.au eff1099b.au eff10d2a.au eff10015.au eff103c1.au eff106c1.au eff109...

Backed up.

I found all 3:

5.18 gigs free space

Size of 1_date folder: 1,140,577,246 bytes (1.15 GB on disk) for 1,987 items

Painful. Yes it was called 1.aup Saved to my hard drive, under documents I was going to use the function to generate silence and it froze up. I waited about 10 minutes and then force quit, thinking it would not be a big deal and that all of the audio would still be there as I had saved beforehand. M...

2.4.2

Yes the AU files play when I open, didn't save anything. Yes it can open in text-edit. I had about 20 takes from string players this afternoon and I was going to add some silence and then export each file as a wav file. It crashed, tried to re-open, received this message and all the audio gone in th...