Crash Recovery - files all messed up

[godmilk]

Hello everyone!

My friend recorded his side of our podcast in Audacity on Windows. Unfortunately, Audacity crashed.
He recovered and got 2 files, called:
recovery_block1_channel1.wav
recovery_block1_channel2.wav


The problem is that those 2 files are all messed up. The audio is randomly distributed between file 1 and 2 (E.g.: [file1: My opinion on] [file2: this topic] [file1: is the foll] [file2:owing]). Some content seems to occur in both files.

Is there any way to fix this (besides fixing it by hand - which would take way longer than recording it again)? Can audacity somehow merge these files (it's not possible to merge them by hand).

Thank you!

[steve]

It is likely to be far less time consuming to start again.
Before you do, I'd highly recommend upgrading to Audacity 1.3.12. Most users find it to be less prone to crashing than the old 1.2.6 version, and in the unlikely event of a crash it can usually recover the project automatically.

[godmilk]

Thank you. 1.3 is recommended and stable even though it's beta?

[waxcylinder]

1.3 is the recommended version for Windows 7 and Vista

It also works well on Windows XP. I run two PCs: a desktop with Windows XP-HE-SP3 and a laptop with XP-PRO-SP3. On both of those I run 1.3.12 as my standard production systems.

1.2 is ancient now and has not been supported/updated fo a very long time. There are a couple of bugs in 1.3.12 which prevent the developers from declaring it an officially "stable" release - but on most modern computing platforms 1.3 is normally a lot more stable then 1.2.

WC