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Please post the output from "Audio Device Info" from the Audacity Help menu.

Thanks for the help so far. Well we've ruled out quite a few possibilities, but not really got any further identifying what the actual problem is. I thought it was a problem with the software though, as it has worked fine for ages. ...

Jules thanks - let me have a go and I'll come back to you - really appreciate the help Jules? No, have a look at https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ Anyway, that's irrelevant for now. Let's simulate the first part of the method. Our sample sound could be narrow-band ...

... avoid working from it. The problem occurs regardless of whether I'm editing a new unsaved sound or opening a saved project file. Thanks for the help so far.

Jules

thanks - let me have a go and I'll come back to you - really appreciate the help

Why "Community Forum" though? To emphasise that this is not intended for Audacity support questions. If people want help using the Audacity software they should ask on the Help forum relevant to their operating system . This forum is specifically for those involved with making ...

i just accidently sent the audacity file i was working on from the desktop to the recycling bin, the audacity file now says not responding. will i loose all my work? can i get it to respond?

help!
using vista

17 GB of data is far too much for 1 hour 45 minutes of unedited recording. At 44100 Hz 32-bit float stereo that should be only about 2 GB. So either you were recording at an excessively high rate or you were editing the recording extensively. What does the sample rate say in the corrupted AUP file? ...

Hi, thanks for the fast reply. I kinda guessed that this might be the case - having opened up both the corrupt and valid .aup file (the one from last week) I could see they were in effect an index, and frankly I don't fancy trying to rebuild something with that many entries. As far as drive space is...

You may have no show. The AUP is a text file (you can open it in Notepad) that contains the instructions of what Audacity should do with all that stuff in the _DATA folder. Between missing a good AUP file (apparently) and also having bad blocks, there may be no way to put back together what's left. ...