Just thought I’d hop back on this forum since I reproduced the error! Luckily I’ve learned my lesson and had several copies saved, so I only lost a few minutes of editing.
I opened the project I had saved on an SD card, and then I ran my file through noise reduction. it only got about halfway and then the project became corrupted. I then copied an undamaged copy of the project to my desktop, and ran the same noise reduction routine with no problems. That’s exactly the way the first project became corrupted as well.
I’m not knowledgeable enough to say exactly what about the SD card is causing it to crash, but from here on out I am only going to work on projects saved on my computer, and then use my SD card only as backup.
We knew “external” drives caused problems, but we didn’t have a one-to-one cause until know. We also know full, slow, and sloppy internal drives can cause problems from the poster that cleaned up his spinning metal drive and most if not all his instability problems vanished.
If you have a Solid State internal drive, you should just make sure it doesn’t approach filling up. SSDs do complex internal housekeeping and they really hate filling up.
If you have a spinning metal drive (can you hear it spinning up? oooooeeeeeTICK) then you should make sure it doesn’t fill up and defragment and optimize it on occasion.
Hello, I’m new to this so unsure if this is the right thing to do. Audacity crashed on me and did not save, all I have is aup3-wal file. Can this be recovered? Desperate! Thank you
