I recorded a dozen audios in a creative period, not wanting to lose my momentum I did not stop and save after each.
Suddenly I had a poweroutage and my cpu shut off, audacity saved my work, howver when open the program now the last one glitches on reload and thus all before it do not get to open, Is there a way i can stop the last one from loading, cancelling it some how? I would rather lose 1 than all 12.
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So do you see the Automatic Crash Recovery Dialogue, you choose to recover, Audacity freezes and then you force quit Audacity in Task Manager?
Audacity is recovering each project from separate AUTOSAVE files in the AutoSave folder where Audacity keeps its application data. To see that AutoSave folder, open Explorer, type this in the address bar
%appdata%
then press ENTER on your keyboard. Then go into the “Audacity” folder and look in the “AutoSave” folder. You can rename the AUTOSAVE file for the project that stalls to some other extension such as “AUTOSA”, then Audacity will ignore that file when you next launch Audacity.
However if you want to attempt to repair that bad project so that it can recover properly, you will need to force quit Audacity again after you have exported the projects that recover properly. Otherwise, the audio data for the problem project will be deleted when you quit Audacity normally.
The actual audio data for each project is in separate “project” folders in your Audacity temporary folder. To know which “project” folder relates to the AUTOSAVE file you renamed, open the renamed AUTOSAVE file in Notepad. Look for “project” with some numbers after it. To be extra safe, you could copy the “project” folder concerned to your Desktop, so you have a backup of it there.
If you don’t know where your Audacity temp folder is, open the “audacity.cfg” text file that is in the “Audacity” application data folder you opened in Explorer. The temp folder location is given in audacity.cfg underneath the “[Directories]” line.
If you would like us to try to repair the project that freezes, attach the renamed AUTOSAVE file so we can see it. Please see here for how to attach files: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-attach-files-to-forum-posts/24026/1
Gale
The problem is that when the program is I never got to save these, whent he program is recovering
the program does not name the files as they are recovered so
I cant identify the one that is making the computer glitch. Several of them load then one glitches
and all of them close. Is there a way that I can save the ones up to the one that glitches?
Audacity recovers the projects in the order listed in the Automatic Crash Recovery dialogue. So if the last recovery fails as you stated in your original questions, that bad recovery is the one listed last (at the bottom) in the Automatic Crash Recovery dialogue.
So (as described above) open Explorer, type this in the address bar
%appdata%
then press ENTER on your keyboard. Then go into the “Audacity” folder and look in the “AutoSave” folder. Rename the AUTOSAVE file for the project that stalls to some other extension such as “AUTOSA”, then Audacity will ignore that file when you next launch Audacity.
If you cannot identify the project that fails, then rename all but one AUTOSAVE file, recover that one project that still has AUTOSAVE extension and export a WAV file from it.
Then name one of the remaining files back to its proper AUTOSAVE extension, recover that project and export a WAV file from it. Proceed that way, one recovery at a time until you hit the bad project.
As I described, if you want to recover the bad project, you must force quit it then examine the AUTOSAVE file and that project’s temporary data. If you want help doing that, please state your Audacity version number as previously requested.
Gale