Audacity Forum

Hey everybody,

So I have the demo version of Fruity Loops, which won't let you save your projects, so to cheat the system I use Audacity to record the stuff I make with Fruity Loops. So after recording a little obnoxious-long-complicated-electro loop I go to record it, and as I'm saving the Audacity project I decide to exit Fruity Loops and Mozilla at the same time because I'm Superman and I figured it would work out. When I did this the computer froze up and got mad at me for a bit, and when the fog of computer error messages finally cleared I saw Audacity had gone away and I came to the stunning realization that I'm in fact not Superman.

So I go to reopen Audacity and get Supermad when I see that my project didn't save, but upon further investigation I find that the project data FOLDER was there and fine and dandy but the project FILE wasn't. This made me confused as well as Supermad so I took my anger out by playing emulated Donkey Kong, which of course made me even angrier and then I hit something, which made me feel a whole lot nicer.

So is there any way I can revive my project from the project data folder?

Thanks,

Ausoupity

Ausoupity wrote:and when the fog of computer error messages finally cleared I saw Audacity had gone away and I came to the stunning realization that I'm in fact not Superman.

OK, you've given me a laugh, so let's look at the question...

Ausoupity wrote:So I go to reopen Audacity and get Supermad when I see that my project didn't save, but upon further investigation I find that the project data FOLDER was there and fine and dandy but the project FILE wasn't. This made me confused as well as Supermad so I took my anger out by playing emulated Donkey Kong, which of course made me even angrier and then I hit something, which made me feel a whole lot nicer.

Send your little brothers and sisters away and find a nice thick pillow or cushion before reading the next bit
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Ausoupity wrote:So is there any way I can revive my project from the project data folder?

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Are your siblings at a safe distance?

Ausoupity wrote:So is there any way I can revive my project from the project data folder?

Probably not.
You could try importing all those little ".au" files into Audacity and putting them into numerical order - either lots of tracks and use the time shift tool to move them into place, or cut and paste them into one track.
The ".au" files are not really "audio files", though they do contain audio data, and Audacity does not necessarily use all of them, and has not necessarily saved all of them, so there is a good chance that you will not get the complete track, and only a very slim chance that you will recover it, even after many hours of trying.
Now punch the cushion several times and repeat after me "I am not Superman".

Heh, ok thanks for the helpitude and suggestions! Lucky for you I'm not really an angry person, only when I'm in my own stories, because if I was an angry person you'd get the wrath of lots of "wtf? no ur fat!" and "u sukc u ddint fix my hole wold frevr!" and other beatings to the English language.

If I'm feeling particularly patient one night I will definitely try that, thanks again for the help!