I have been using audacity to edit podcasts for a number of years but use the same basic functions and tools over and over and so I am not particularly experienced from a technical perspective.
Tonight I imported a wav file and, as normal, tried to use the standard compressor as a first step. I have not changed any settings but for some reason after it applied I was left with a no waveform. It is as if it deleted the file.
I reimported and tried again but the problem remined. I updated audacity to the latest version, but no luck. I have been performing the same steps for about 6 years and have no idea why this has suddenly happened now.
I am using windows 10 and the recording was made on a mixpre 3 mk2.