I’m using audacity Audacity 3.7.3 on linux mint. I had a project where I had several individual clips in multiple tracks that I was trying to sync up to another track. the project was a work in progress, however I wanted to work with what I had and mixed the tracks together and copied and pasted them into a new project where I could work on the next part of what I was doing. While I was working in this new project, Audacity crashed. I didn’t see it as a big deal and I reopened audacity and recovered the projects. I got back my unsaved project I was working on, but what I didn’t realize is that it completely overwrote the other previously saved project with the autosaved version, so now all the individual clips I had across multiple tracks was now hard baked into a single mixed file and there was nothing I could do about it. I can’t detach at silences or manually slice the clips out either because the majority of the clips overlapped with each other.
I’m fairly certain that the other version I had saved of the project is now long gone, as I already closed without saving (which did nothing since it was already saved like that) and reopened it. I’m okay if nobody can help with this, but I feel an incredible urge to whine about the design of having the project recovery completely overwrite a project you already have saved, especially without warning. The checkboxes that let you only recover whatever projects you need is an extremely good feature, but I don’t think it alone is enough if you aren’t aware of this behavior. I’ve dealt with this issue a few times before without too much damage, but this time it’s a lot of in progress work that is now pretty much forced to be finalized, at least not without redoing a bunch of things.