Audacity Forum

I'm hoping someone can bail me out here. I'm at a loss.

Using Audacity 1.2.6 on Windows 7. Like a moron, I exited an hour-long recording session without saving. I went through the manual recovery process in the help wiki, stitching together about 320 individual files.

Then, when I previewed it, no audio. The waveforms are all there, but I can't hear anything. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to go through and redo it on my XP machine, but if anyone has any insight I'd love to hear it.

There should have been billions of files, not 320. You apparently recovered the picture files that make up the blue waves (not all the files in the pile are sound).

If you closed Audacity after you failed to save, Audacity would have gone 'round and "cleaned up" the capture files.

You should not be using Audacity 1.2.

Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported,
patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can
be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.

If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio
compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software
from the same web site. Do not use older software
or software from other web sites, even though they
may have the same names.

Koz