Audacity Forum

Here's what I believe happened to me:

1) I saved a project
2) Later on windows bluescreened
3) The files disappeared SOMEHOW and because I'd saved them audacity cleared its temporary cache, so now there's no way to recover them.

Is something like this the case? I had a project saved, and now it doesn't exist anywhere. I've searched my whole hard drive for au files and nothing.

Projects do not live in temporary cache. That's only for capture data before you save a project. Projects consist of conventional files, although sometimes a lot more of them than you think.

Are you filling up your hard drive? Do you know why it blue-screened? Audacity is the canary in the coal mine. If you have an unstable Audacity, you very likely have a lot of other problems. I use Audacity on at least 8 different machines -- all platforms -- some not belonging to me -- and I think I've had Audacity crash, maybe twice, and that was the experimental code, not the production programs.

Right Click c: > Properties > Tools > Error Check. I bet the machine doesn't make it through that.

Drive capacity on a video or audio machine should never drop below 10% free and that's a minimum.

After you clean out your hard drive, you might try the Microsoft Memory Tester...

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

A machine must be stable and in perfect health for this to pass multiple times. Start it when you go to bed.

Koz