In 2012 I recorded an interview of 6 hours on Audacity. Since, I have changed computers but have kept the files. I just reinstalled audacity 2.1.0 and tried loading the files. They are all present, 5000+ files of 5-seconds recordings, but I cannot find how to re-order to listen in a chronological way. These files are all .au and I see none that are named .aup
Folders go in this logic:
Main: Cecile_1_data
opens – e00
opens – d00, d01, d0f, ect
each opens to many 5 seconds .au files
It was quite a job. I renamed all files with xplorer2 program, which did, as promised, bulk file renaming. I named them with their time stamp.
Since it’s too long to queue each file in audacity and transform it to mp3, I simply played them in date/time order and press record on my computer’s stock vocal recorder. Since it’s an interview, I don’t care much for top quality.
I just wanted to point out that it seems that the reason I lost the .aup file in the 1st place (my hypothesis) is that when I last backed up those files on the old computer, the .aup file was not recognized as a ‘music’ file - the backup just didn’t catch it. It did for all typical backup files, such as music, photos, documents, videos. It might be something to look into for developers? Anyway, I learned my lesson. I’ll be exporting straight to mp3 next time.
Thanks for helping. I am relieved. This interview is soooo precious to me.
There was no need to do that. The idea was to connect the renamed files together using the 1.2 Audacity Recovery Utility.
It seems a limitation of the backup tool that you should have been aware of.
That said we may make some kind of all-in-one project file in future. It might be a ZIP file, which presumably your backup software would recognise, but more likely not.
But since you have a relatively simple single-track project to work with, the learning for the future is to export a WAV file rather than rely on the Audacity project format
