Audacity Forum

Macbook owner using audacity.
I recorded a number of people last Friday using the same audacity file....it was continually going and I believe that I had about 4 hours of conversation.
I listened to a number of clips from the recording on Saturday and then closed the recording down, I didn't save the recording nor did I give it a particular name.
I have been trying to find the recording on my computer ever since and cannot find it anywhere, I have used Tinker Tool and looked in the temporary file folder but have had no joy. I do not believe that I have deleted the file.

Can anyone possibly help of has the file been removed ? or is it somewhere obvious?
Thanks for your help

Didn't Audacity complain that you hadn't saved your work? All of ours do.

You know you can search for files, but did you know you can search for file dates, too? Select the hard drive you think is the hero and and press Apple-F. Open up Any Date and type the creation date of your missing files in there.

Audacity keeps temporary sound files running when you're making a recording. It closes them when it shuts down, so if you haven't saved a Project or exported a sound file, you may get to do the recording again.

Koz

Thanks Koz,
Have searched through but can't see anything obvious.

Audacity probably did remind me but I was distracted during the close down and then.....

Is there any particular file endings that are unique to audacity other than .au and .aup?

Thanks
Joe

<<<Is there any particular file endings that are unique to audacity other than .au and .aup?>>>

And those two are only in the project folder.

No. The exports are .wav or .mp3, etc just like everywhere else. The program on a Windows machine is an .exe file. On a Mac it's .app.

I can tell you that in the UNIX machines, the temporary files are "dot files" so they're hidden from the normal operating system. They start with a dot, like .audacity_temp

If there are capture files left over, Audacity will volunteer to try and rescue them when it opens up the very next time. This is the crash recovery mode. If it didn't volunteer to do that, then you're in trouble. There are no orphan capture files.

<<<Seosamh>>>

Is that "Sean" the hard way?

Koz