Thanks for the insight!
One thing I have not mentioned is that after I finished recording (and before I exited the programme of course) I decided to use the noise reduction tool on the whole audio clip to increase the sound quality. Does this mean that the whole entirety of the audio data should have been temporarily saved somewhere on the disk drive?
I shall have a look at the DB SQLite tool.
Not as one file. There may well be thousands of fragments of audio data that could possibly be recovered from disk, but no map to tell you how to put them together.
Do you know the location of where these thousands of audio data fragments will be? And what they may be named and the file format?
The default location on Windows is:
C:\Users<your-name>\AppData\Local\Audacity\SessionData\
There are just two files that contain the data, with names similar to:
New Project 2024-04-13 21-27-28 N-1.aup3unsaved
New Project 2024-04-13 21-27-28 N-1.aup3unsaved-wal
However, that is unlikely to help you since neither of them contain “audio files”.
Here is a screenshot of a properly saved AUP3 file, viewed in the DB SQLite tool:
Notice that the sample data is stored as binary data in “blobs”. Those “blobs” are the fragments that I was referring to, and the data in the blobs looks like random numbers.
Successfully recovering even a properly saved SQLite database that has been accidentally deleted is unlikely, but in your case it is even less likely since the database was never properly saved.
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but as I said in my first post in this thread, the chance of success is practically zero.
Having tried for days to recover a file, I’m sorry to tell you it is very unlikely you will be able to recover it. Instead of spending your time, trying to find a solution, he will be better off spending that time re-recording.
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