I was working on a long audio file for a podcast and lost about 4 hours of progress.
The problem occurred when I decided I needed to split the audio into two different files. Half of the audio was completely finished and I wanted to separate it from the rest so I decided the best solution would be to save my audio under the current name “Pod 001” and then save the same file again under a different name “Pod 002”.
Therefore I should have two separate save files with the same audio on each. I then went to “Pod 001” and removed all my unfinished audio to do a final save. After completing the save of my completed work I opened “Pod 002” I then removed all the finished audio from that file so I could continue to work on the next portion another day while staying organized.
After all these careful steps I closed Audacity, later when I re-opened my “Pod 001” file I found only the raw unedited audio (potentially from my very first autosave). I quickly went to open my other file “Pod 002” and to my horror, there was only my unedited audio and no way to undo what I had deleted from that file.
First, where is my mistake, can you not save one file under two different names using the save as selection?
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Second, is there any possible way to undo this error, I check online and in my autosave folder, and in AppData, I think the answer is no. I am really really not looking forward to editing the same audio again.
