Recovering Audacity files after Chkdsk disaster

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I was keeping several gigs of audacity files on an external usb drive. It became corrupted and wanted me to run chkdsk. I did and it said all of my audacity files were unreadable. Now they’re in almost 10,000 numbered.chk files in a directory on the drive. I can isolate the .aup files from the .au block files, but I can’t find any way by looking at them in a text editor to piece them back together. I am assuming it’s all dependent on file names which are now completely gone, but I thought I’d ask here if anyone knows any tricks for putting my mess back together again.

Thanks.

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For unedited recording it can (sometimes) be possible to put the pieces back together based on their time of creation, but I guess that the timestamps are missing too.

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I think starting with Audacity 2.0.0, the filenames are intentionally scrambled. So there is that. Which version of Audacity are you using?

Koz

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Your favourite Audacity feature of random block file numbering started in Audacity 1.3.0.

Otherwise, as Steve said.


Gale

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Your favorite Audacity feature of random block file numbering started in Audacity 1.3.0.

Forgive me.
Koz