HELP: after crash, how can I recover data?

[warholiano]

Hi,
I am working under an Intel Macbook and Audacity 1.2.

After less than 2 hours of a recording Audacity crashed, (it is still crashed but I can work with Finder and terminal). I have seen that I have more than 2000 ".au" files in my temporal folder,

can I recover all the data from this 2000 files?

is there any way to paste them?

thanks in advance!!

Enrique

[alatham]

It's tricky, and it might not work, but this wiki page has all the info we've got on this:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery

Note that Crash Recovery in 1.3.3 is much much better than 1.2.6.

[warholiano]

Thanks,
that help sounds a little confusing, and more for Mac, but ok, let's try

i am thinking in running the recovery script under Linux, can I do that? Is there any incompatibility between .au files in Mac and Linux?

thanks again
Enrique

[alatham]

The projects are 100% cross-platform compatible.

I occasionally work on 1 project in both Windows and Linux and switch between the two with no problems.

[kozikowski]

Note that nobody said, "The last time I had an Audacity Project crash, this is how I got my show back."

That's because there is nobody who can say that.

Koz

[jan.kolar]

Note that nobody said, "The last time I had an Audacity Project crash, this is how I got my show back."

That's because there is nobody who can say that.

Koz

I dit say !
So I am the only one ????

[steve]

I dit say !
So I am the only one ????

No you're not the only one - but it depends on what the problem was in the first place and how much of the project remains. Often a trashed project is unrecoverable, but sometimes you can be lucky.

[waxcylinder]

Jan was actually more than lucky - he was thoughful and skilful in his approach - and posted his technique for the benefit of others in another thread - see: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 863#p22863

WC