Widows 7 - Audacity 2.1.0 - Open Office
I have tried all the material in a previous forum now locked.
I exported the file as opposed to saving it as you have to and it disappears into thin air.
I tried the search box for MP3 and also the full name of the file but nothing.
I’ve had a look in documents and there is nothing there.
It seems to appear under plug-ins and I can only see this when I want to export another file so it is obviously hiding in audacity itself but how do I get it out?
exported the file as opposed to saving it as you have to and it disappears into thin air.
Did you explicitly tell Audacity to save the file somewhere, or use the default location? I thought this got fixed, but an earlier Audacity version used to insist on saving work in the Application or other sensitive locations unless you stopped it. What happens if you tell Audacity to Export to the desktop?
It’s also possible, since this is an unusual place to save work, that your anti-virus program is eating it. Disconnect your network, suspend your virus program and see if it still happens.
If you went through other forum threads you know not to put punctuation marks in your filenames. I think underline is safe.
Koz
I tried the search box for MP3 and also the full name of the file but nothing.
Have you tried exporting to WAV? Maybe you’ve got an MP3 encoding problem?
The default location is the audacity environment but I cannot get to the files to see where they are.
Such Icons as I get are not clickable for saving. Once it’s in it’s in.
MY customer wont have anything else than MP3.
FWIW here is some Audacity Build Information which implies to my amateur eyes that MP3 is not supported
File Format Support
libmad (MP3 Importing) Enabled
libvorbis (Ogg Vorbis Import and Export) Enabled
libid3tag (ID3 tag support) Enabled
libflac (FLAC import and export) Enabled
libtwolame (MP2 export) Enabled
QuickTime (Import via QuickTime) Disabled
ffmpeg (FFmpeg Import/Export) Enabled
gstreamer (Import via GStreamer) Disabled
My workaround was to save it to desktop. It does not save in images or sound files if it does it is invisible.
Desktop is untidy.
MY customer wont have anything else than MP3.
Yes, ACX AudioBook has that problem. It is highly recommended that you edit, prepare and save archive in high quality WAV and only produce the deliverable as a lesser quality MP3 copy as required.
“Lesser Quality MP3” is one word.
It’s extraordinarily difficult to re-edit an MP3 without sound damage. Effectively, once you have an MP3, that’s the end of the production path.
My workaround was to save it to desktop. It does not save in images or sound files if it does it is invisible.
So it wasn’t a successful work-around.
Open Audacity cold. File > Open Recent. Does your saved show appear?
I would have joined the Massively Untidy Desktop Milieu but for one trick. I have a folder on the desktop called “Stuff.” Periodically, I make a new folder called, for example, Desktop20151010, and dump my whole desktop into it. Everything but the two or three items I use every day. Then I move the Desktop folder into Stuff. Poof. Clean desktop and I didn’t throw anything away permanently. All the works are available either through File > Find or Spotlight, and current works accumulate on the desktop again…until I can’t find anything. Repeat.
Attached a partial screen grab of my Stuff folder.
Koz
If you want to save anywhere on the computer you have to be logged in as administrator.
To see the extension of MP3 files, so that “song.mp3” is listed as “song.mp3” rather than “song”, you have to show hidden files and folders.
MP3 export support is always enabled on Windows and Mac - you just have to add the LAME MP3 encoder to your computer.
An exported audio file will not show in in File > Recent Files (as it is called on Windows). Saved and opened projects and imported audio files appear.
Koz is on Mac - there is no Spotlight search on Windows.
Gale
Forgive me. I thought this was a Mac problem.
Koz