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Computer cold boot before saving
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:08 pm
by Novice
My laptop was unplugged at a live gig after a set was recorded... I had saved the file before recording. When the laptop was unplugged it went into some kind of hibernation and the only way out of it was to cold boot. Audacity asks me if I want to delete temporary files and then tells me that the files can be recovered manually. I found what I believe is the file but when I play it, it plays super fast and sounds like white noise. What do I do to restore this file to a workable file?
Re: Computer cold boot before saving
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:48 pm
by kozikowski
First, you don't have "a file." You have a crashed Audacity Capture Project which can be thousands of files. Depending on a lot of things, the latest crash recovery may be able to put much of your show back together.
Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery
You know what happened to your computer, right, and how to keep it from happening again? "Sleep, Suspend, and Hibernate should all be turned off on a production computer. Windows machines have a terrible reputation for not recovering without the high-voltage paddles.
Clear!
Koz