I’ve been working on a project where I am mixing about a dozen songs into one continuous mix. I opened up the project today and boy was I surprised to find that half my work had been converted to silence! Strangely, it is almost exactly the first half of the project that has been silenced.
I don’t know if this is a bug in audacity or if I just did something stupid. I have received no error messages but I don’t even know how I would go about ‘accidentally’ selecting and silencing all those tracks. Regardless I would very much like to recover my work. Help??
I am using Audacity 2.0.2 on a Windows 7 machine. I don’t remember if I installed from an exe or zip, it has been a long time.
Oh I checked project dependencies and it says the project is self-contained. I don’t remember Audacity asking me about this but I did set this for another project a while ago so it’s probably true.
There is a known problem (listed in the release notes) that Projects with 2^31 samples or more (just over 13.5 hours at 44100 Hz) will not re-open correctly. Higher sample rates mean proportionally shorter times - so just over 6 hours at 96,000 Hz. Workaround: Before saving or closing the project, export to audio files of appropriate size, or cut and paste sections of audio containing less than 2^31 samples to new Audacity projects and save those.
Out of interest, were you using a high sample rate?
As concern, have you exported a backup copy in WAV format? (WAV {or FLAC} files are extremely robust and make excellent backups)
Thanks.
I don’t know why you got the problem with 2.0.2, but there have been a lot of bug fixes since then. 2.0.6 is due out soon, so keep an eye on: Audacity ® | Downloads, or register your e-mail address at the bottom of the Audacity home page (http://audacityteam.org/) if you want to be notified when it is released.
