Audacity Forum

I have been recording some old records so I can listen to them on my MP3 player. After recording a track I select export as .WAV and save the file to a temporary directory before performing any audio clean-up required. I also save the project . The problem I have is that when I exit the Audacity program, the files are being deleted from the hard drive. Does anyone know why this could be happening?

stepperdoc wrote:After recording a track I select export as .WAV and save the file to a temporary directory

Exactly which "temporary directory" are you saving the exported WAV file to?
(I presume that you mean the WAV file is being deleted?)

I have created a directory called audacity/temp on my MP3 drive. When I exit the program, the .WAV file and the .AUP are both deleted but the data folder remains. I now copy the .WAV file to another folder before exiting Audacity but I shouldn't have to do this!

I suspect that this is beacause the directory Audacity/temp that you have is where you have set as the location of Audacity's temp work files. In which case when you close Audacity it flushes out it's temporary directory contents (as it should) and this of course includes your WAV file.

Just create a separate directory under a different name: Audacity/WAVs say - though I tend to create a separate directory entry for each project (for eaxmaple for each LP that I transcribe).

WC

Thanks for the replies - much appreciated. I will try what you suggest and thinking about it, it does make sense to clear temporary files.