How To recovery file recording

[steve]

You don’t say which version of Audacity you are using, but in the current 2.1.2 version (available here: http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/) automatic recovery is highly effective and rarely fails.

@quangngaicity

the file naming it’s not just a numerical counter, but it looks like a random hexadecimal code.

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

[Gale_Andrews]

@quangngaicity

All the .au files are there, but it’s folders (d00 to d06) with a total 1560 files.
I couldn’t find a tool that can rebuild the .aup file, which is just an xml it seems.
If such a tool doesn’t exist, I would be able to write a tool which recreates the xml, but i need the exact sequence of the .au pieces.

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