A few days back, I saved an Audacity project, b/c I couldn’t work on it at the time. Now, when I try to open the file, it says it doesn’t recognize the type of file, despite it being an .aup file. I searched for the solution, and I found about how the .aup could be blank. I opened it on NotePad, and the file was blank, no text. I still have the data. Can you help me?
I couldn’t work on it at the time.
Did you work on it a little bit like maybe rough-cutting or simple editing? If you did, it’s all over. Audacity will sometimes recover a Project that you shot and then saved with no editing. Once you do any post production, it scrambles the _DATA folder.
I think there’s more than one of these instructions.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recovering_crashes_manually.html
You should consider what would happen if the show doesn’t come back.
You can get that if you close the computer before Audacity has a chance to write the AUP file.
Koz
That is the correct (and only) instruction page for recovering an unedited recording without a usable AUP file.
Gale
[Writing that down.]
Koz