Hello everyone, I am new to the board so please forgive me if the solution to this is posted somewhere else on the board.
I recently recorded a 2 hour session of a podcast with my friend’s Mac computer. After the session, Audacity crashed. I was able to find the recovery file and I sent it to myself via DropBox so I could save the project on my PC. I have all the necessary files and file structure in place but I can’t piece it back to together. I’ve tried the recovery utility, hoping I could catch a break, no luck. I even tried inserted the full file into my “temp” folder hoping it would trigger the Auto Recovery… again, no luck.
Is there a way to save my project other than just piecing together hundreds of small audio files? I have less than a week to find a solution. Any help and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated and welcome.
What exactly did you send to yourself? And did you save a project before you started recording? You need the AUTOSAVE file and you need the “project” folder (if you never saved a project) or the “_data” folder (if you did save a project) that is specified in the AUTOSAVE file. Then, because the path to the folder will be different than on Mac, you’ll need to change the path by hand-editing the “datadir” in the AUTOSAVE file.
For Windows 8 the AUTOSAVE file needs to be in Users<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\AutoSave.
I would suggest don’t try it. Recover on the Mac, which should be just pushing a button “Recover Project” when you restart Audacity, then export the result to one or more WAV files which you can import into the PC.
If you mean the 1.2 Recovery Utility as described here http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/recovering_crashes_manually.html, that will work, providing you did not edit the recording before the crash. Timesort the files then rename them as described in the link before using the utility. However for stereo recording, the left and right channels may be transposed here and there.
I started recording without saving. At the end of the session when I went to save is when it crashed. I do not have the Mac computer here as my friend picked it up and left for home(we live far apart). I copied the recovery file which I have currently as…
project###>e00>d00 (the last file has d00-d09, each file containing a couple hundred files each)
I don’t have an AUTOSAVE file, didn’t realize I needed it.
If you mean the 1.2 Recovery Utility as described here > http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/recovering_crashes_manually.html> , that will work, providing you did not edit the recording before the crash. Timesort the files then rename them as described in the link before using the utility. However for stereo recording, the left and right channels may be transposed here and there.
There was no editing before the crash. The recovery tool gives me an error and tells me to check the log, which I can’t find. Also, I don’t see the timestamps. Is this because I extracted the files after I opened them from DropBox?
Was this Mac Yosemite? Audacity 2.0.5 does not support Yosemite.
Then you do not have a recovery file, all you have is the data.
It is important not to confuse files and folders. d00 to d09 are folders, not files.
When Audacity crashes, all you have to do is restart it and it “should” offer to recover the project. This is always the best thing to try first.
Please see the link provided previously for how to recover manually from a folder. I would recover one WAV for each “d” folder, giving you 10 WAV files. Limiting recovery to one “d” folder at a time will help avoid errors. It is not hard to string 10 WAV files end to end.
If you switch to Details view in File Explorer you can see the timestamps. If the timestamps are all the same, there is no useful recovery because the pieces of data will be in random order without any way to sort them into order.