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If you accidentally do something, and the project is still open, the unintended action can be undone using "Edit menu > Undo ..." (Shortcut: Ctrl + Z). The "Undo" command will undo the last thing done, and you can undo any number of actions, stepping back to when the project was ...

can you tell that the file is not at all recoverable in any scenario The file you posted looks that way to me. I'm not optoistic about your chances, but you could try other data recovery programs to see if you can recover more meaningful data from the drive. I've had some success (and some failures...

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I don't think we can help you either. I don't see anything in that file that can be recovered.

lauriesherrod wrote:when I export to .mp3 or .wav, it cuts off the first three seconds

Do you mean that when you play the file in a specific audio player, the first three seconds are skipped?
What's the audio player?

jethroburns wrote:(except for volume)

and "Pan".

How do you intend to "edit" with an external mixing board?
Audacity has a primitive software Mixer Board: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/mixer_board.html

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Have you tried powering everything off and rebooting everything ( everything )? I once worked at a place where they had about 20 USB interfaces of one particular model (not Line 6), that were forever giving this type of problem. Usually, turning off the computer and the Interface, then rebooting wou...

With the Amplify effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/amplify.html

rdp5309 wrote:the recording continues for several seconds, even though it looks like it ahs actually stopped.

I don't understand what you mean. How does it "look like it has stopped" and "continues for several seconds"?