Audacity Deleting EVERYTHING!

[PikoPikoPrincess]

Hi! I'm having a huge issue with Audacity, I just downloaded it yesterday as well.. My issue is I made a file with voice and some background music yesterday. Today I went on and it was gone! I got a message saying,





I have no idea what may have happened. When I go to my data folders for the songs, everyone of the clips are there. But the file says it can't find them! I am a total idiot with computers, but I reaally don't know what I have done wrong. Please help me out! I don't want to go back to Sound Recorder. D:


ANY HELP IS GREAT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!! ><

[kozikowski]

While this kind of thing can happen when there is computer damage of some sort, it's much more likely that you moved something. When you completed your performance capture, did you save your project file and then move it to a more convenient folder?

Projects aren't simple sound files. You have to "Export" to get one of those. Projects are a cloud of different types of files and they point to one another. Move one of them and the show falls apart.

Did I hit it?

Koz

[PikoPikoPrincess]

That would make a lot of sense. I don't remember moving anything but it's very possible. I won't do that in the future anyways. But if in the rarer case it is like damaged somehow or something how do I go about fixing that/avoiding that in the future?

[waxcylinder]

Probably the simplest way is to Export a project when you have finished working on it as a WAV file. This gives you just one single file, a music file - which you can move around to anywhere you want. You can always re-open the WAV file in Audacity to work on it further later if you need/want to.

And once you have exported the WAV (and backed it up) then you can delete the Audacity project (the <Proj_name>.aup file and its associated <Proj_name>_data folder with all the little cloud of .au files that it contains).

WC