The hard drive was removed from my old pc because the pc was having major issues and the hard drive was old. But all the original information still exists on the drive. Now I need to do a recovery of old projects that didn’t save. I need them in the original way they were left in, but I do not know how to get this to work. I found a video that explained a tool that does the recovery, but I don’t think it leaves it in its original condition. Any help, please?
V.2.1.3 I like to keep this version because the tools are easier to use.
I need to do a recovery of old projects that didn’t save.
I don’t think your description hangs together quite right. Your computer caught fire while Audacity was open with multiple projects?
Your old machine wouldn’t wake up and you brought the old C:\ into a new computer as D:\ and now you want to open up the old shows?
We didn’t get the whole story. There’s big holes in the middle.
If you have an AUP file and an associated _DATA folder, it’s just a matter of right-clicking the AUP file and Open With > Audacity. Your D:\ drive would be an internal drive and it should work. Audacity doesn’t like external, USB, network, internet, or cloud drives.
If the computer fell over with an Audacity Project Edit open, there is almost zero chance of bringing the show back to life.
Koz
Alright, let me be more elaborate. I didn’t save the projects, I usually had to force close audacity, in which, it would do the automatic recovery every time I reopened it. However, I did not get the chance to save those projects (The pc was shut down and the hard drive was taken out.) before the hard drive was removed. Right now I am in a very upset mood over this, I am getting this new pc back to looking normal. I know I should’ve done the saving before things started, But I did not think about it beforehand. The session data is still located in the drive, untouched.
I really need to get these back… I can’t stop crying right now… They were very important…
Where is the hard drive now?
I have it safely laid out on my desk.
If your new computer is a full size desktop / tower computer (rather than a laptop), you may be able to get a PC repair company (or a friend that is good with computers) to put your old drive into your new computer as a “second drive”. If they can do that, and if the drive is not faulty, then you will be able to access the files on the drive. Most likely the drive will appear as the "D:" drive.
I do have all the data from the drive on the new pc. I went to the session temp and it’s the separated audio pieces. Please tell me that there is a way to get those projects back to their original selves. Like the full project. I am so drained… I really need those to come back.
I do have all the data from the drive on the new pc.
You left out pieces again. If you never mounted the old drive in the new PC, or never put the old drive in a drive cabinet, and the old machine is a wreck, how did you get the data onto the new machine?
I didn’t save the projects, I usually had to force close audacity,
That’s the magic phrase. If the machine crashed before Audacity had a chance to recover the show, that may be the end of the world. Others may post.
I agree the only possible way out is to get someone to put the old drive in the new machine as a second (D:) drive—if possible.
Koz
If the drive was put in the pc, what would this help with? Please explain more.
Also, I do have a tool that connects the drive without me having to open the pc up to insert the drive.
I think there’s too many pieces of this we don’t know. This is when you get local help rather than trying to get us to untangle everything from multiple time zones away.
Do have have any Windows backups? At any time during production did you File > Export the work as a WAV sound file or any other sound format?
As up the message thread, if the machine went to its heavenly reward before Audacity could rescue the edit, that may be the end of the show.
Someone else may post.
Koz
Recovering the project may fail, but assuming that there was an unsaved project that is recoverable, this is what you need to do:
On the old hard drive there would have been an “autosave” file in:
C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity\AutoSave
(where “” was your user name).
The file would have a name similar to:
“New Project - 2021-11-25 00-05-18 N-7.autosave”
You need to move that file to the same location on your new hard drive.
2.
On the old hard drive there would have been a “project” folder in:
C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Audacity\SessionData
The folder would have a name similar to:
“project123”
You need to move that entire folder and all of its contents to the same location on your new hard drive.
3. Then launch the same version of Audacity as you were using previously.
If everything is in the right place, Audacity will ask if you want to recover the project.
Say Yes, and if you are very lucky, Audacity will recover the project.
Good luck.
(Please note that it is becoming difficult for us to provide support for 2.1.3 because it is so old and so much has changed. The current version is 3.1.2)
You have saved the day my dude. 100!!! I am saving your response for future saves because thank lord man!