Against my better judgement I downloaded and installed 3.7. Up to now I had refused to upgrade after 3.4.2. So far I have lost two master music recordings with about 12 hours each of work. They are not recoverable by opening or the suggested fix. The reason I upgraded is that it was suggested as an option for recovering the files. The second issue is that none of my plugins work with 3.7. I have all the Audacity related plugins and dozens of others from third parties. In 3.7 when I highlight the track and select a plugin, there is no option to preview or apply the plugin. Third issue is that I can’t find a way to open the plugin I purchased from the Muse offerings. Going back to 3.4.2 and ignoring all future upgrades.
It’s always good practice to export as WAV (or FLAC) file immediately after recording, whether you save an Audacity project or not. (A 12-hour file will probably exceed the 4GB WAV limit, so FLAC is better.) Then make back-ups, depending on how important or irreplaceable the recording is.
…Computers are the least reliable things we own. Sooner or later something WILL go wrong and you often don’t know there’s a problem until it’s too late. You might want to consider a solid-state recorder. (You can edit in Audacity after recording.)
If something is super-critical and there’s no chance of “take two”, it’s a good idea to have two devices recording in parallel.
Thanks Doug. The files in question are songs, each about four minutes in total length. The hours of work I mentioned includes the original recordings of 10-12 tracks per song, literally hours of mixing involving eq, compression, application of plugins, panning, etc., then uploading to Aria for mastering. Then doing it again several times until it is (in my mind) perfect for release. For every two hours I spend laying down tracks (I do all the instruments and vocals), I spend about 10 hours mixing and tweaking.
I was able to save one of the songs by reinstalling 3.7 in a new folder, opening that song, downloading all of the stems, then importing the stems to a new 3.4.2 file and saving that. This requires remixing and remastering to get back to the quality of the last wav that I saved. The one file will not open at all. I will try the repair option again using 3.7 but don’t have much hope. I have a radio quality wav of that file but now no way to tweak it if I want to remix it, which I typically do at 15-20 times.
Sincerely appreciate your response.
Sorry you lost all that work. I don’t have any solutions for you but this is one of the main reasons I use portable versions of apps if possible. Before I update, I make a copy of the current folder then, if something goes wrong with the update, I can just delete the updated folder and go straight back to the previous version.
No backup? Then, I do not feel sorry for you…
Your comment is completely superfluous. You should be ashamed of yourself!
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