Audacity crashed and I lost my file that I’ve been working on. Is there a way to recover this? When I reopened the app I was not given the recovery prompt and all of my work was gone. Please tell me there’s a way to get this back.
…that I usually get? Some forum posters are horrified that Audacity doesn’t always recover from crashes. It’s not supposed to crash—ever.
But that’s OK, you can start editing again using the clean backup file you made before you started editing. Was it a WAV (Microsoft) file or Audacity AUP3 Project file. Both would work, although the WAV is more robust.
Koz
When I edit a project, I make a series of incremental WAVE files after each step.
bc525-01 raw.WAV
bc525-02 noise reduced.WAV
bc525-03 ums removed.WAV
bd525-04 de-clicked.WAV
bc525-05 de-essed.WAV
bc525-06 silence truncated.WAV
bc525-07 compressed.WAV
bc525-08 final.WAV
More than once I have had to resort to returning to an incremental backup, and it has saved my sanity.
What typically fails?
Koz
Most of the time, I have to back up because an effect did not have the settings necessary to achieve what I wanted, and trying subsequent effects ends up with me unsure of how far back to undo. Keeping named incremental steps allows me to go back to a known state.
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