How To recovery file recording

You don’t say which version of Audacity you are using, but in the current 2.1.2 version (available here: Audacity ® | Download for Windows) automatic recovery is highly effective and rarely fails.

Yes, it’s partly random. You need to use the file time stamp.
See here for more information about manual recovery: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recovering_crashes_manually.html

Someone wrote such a script already, as an alternative to creating replacement WAV files. It requires installing python 2.7.6 (python 3 may not work correctly). See: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/alternative-recovery-tool/30964/6 For Windows, ideally we would package it into a ZIP file or installer including just the three required python libraries.


Gale