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What is the full name of the file, including the file extension?

Which version of Windows you are using?
What is the exact three-section version of Audacity? (look in: "Help > About Audacity")

AudChance wrote:The temp files contain about five seconds apiece of audio.

What is the total size of the temp folder?

The temp files contain about five seconds apiece of audio. It would take forever to reconstruct the one-hour recording.

I had never saved it. In that case, any data that survived will be in Audacity's "temp" folder. If Audacity is still open, look in "Edit > Preferences > directories" to find the location of the temp folder. If Audacity is currently closed, just look in the default location: Wind...

I had never saved it. In that case, any data that survived will be in Audacity's "temp" folder. If Audacity is still open, look in "Edit > Preferences > directories" to find the location of the temp folder. If Audacity is currently closed, just look in the default location: Wind...

"Audacity 2.0.6 version fixed an issue that projects did not reopen correctly if they contained tracks having 2^31 samples or greater of audio (just over 13.5 hours at 44100 Hz)." http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.0 Unfortunately as you were using 2.0.3 and that problem ...

steve wrote:Is your hard drive full?

p.s. - I can see that the never-saved file is using over 1 million K of physical memory.

"Audacity 2.0.6 version fixed an issue that projects did not reopen correctly if they contained tracks having 2^31 samples or greater of audio (just over 13.5 hours at 44100 Hz)." http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.0 Unfortunately as you were using 2.0.3 and that problem ...

My hard drive is not full, in answer to the polite question. As for Koz, I am tired of the snarky responses. Perhaps the moderator needs a moderator? I came on here with a honest problem. I need the file for work. Clearly I will not have it. I have better, purchased recording software for my Mac. In...

But, why can't I recover even the gibberish of the last 13 hours? Audacity is not a multi-national corporation with crack engineering teams in Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach, and Lucerne. It's a rag-tag collection of volunteers pulling together a sound editor. Once you passed the second data foldove...