Audacity Forum

... should have worked. The fact that it opened "empty" make me think that the audio data is either missing or unreadable. Was there no warning or error message when you opened the file from Gale?

... it would seem that way. Is there some way to get back the original folder? If the recovered waveform is incorrect, but Audacity does not display error messages giving you the choice to close the project without changes, it is best to look at Help > Show Log... to note any errors mentioned there, ...

Uh...anyone here anymore?

Update on something. It did the whole "cleaning" thing and took out my project file from "audacity_temp". Luckily I saved before it but it's missing things, or at least it would seem that way. Is there some way to get back the original folder?

and of course I forgot to attach the picture. Sorry about me forgetting all these things, I'm just really nervous trying to get all of this stuff back...

Oh, and it also keeps trying to "clean up temporary files". Is that ok? Should I let it? Sorry, forgot about that.

Okay so I can recover the file but it's all mute. (picture shows what I mean)

Also the reason my computer turned off was the power flickering off and back on. Wasn't the computer itself.

Now I know that when you save a audacity project it is a AUP file but I didn't save this recording at all. So where would the AUP file be? Would it be the file found in the "AutoSave" folder? If so I'll attach it. Ah OK, sorry I wasn't paying full attention there. No, there is no AUP file until you...

Yeah sorry about that, wasn't to sure how to add info to it. Thanks. Now I know that when you save a audacity project it is a AUP file but I didn't save this recording at all. So where would the AUP file be? Would it be the file found in the "AutoSave" folder? If so I'll attach it. If not then where...

... but it didn't work this time. It just says "Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 5199". I'm not sure what to do about this, can I get ...