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I have not used audacity much so I need some help. I have been given some files to see if I can repair them. The problem is some of the program files seem to have become detached from their data au files. Some files work OK but others only open the first of the data files and some open nothing. I have tried some of the data files by dropping them on the Audacity program and they work ok as a separate program file but I can’t find an easy way to reconnect them. If I open the the original program file and import audio they come onto separate tracks. I could of course copy and past them one at a time onto the first time line, but there must be a quicker way of doing this.

Audacity 1.2.5 Mac Book Pro 2.4GHz intel Core 2 Duo

Excellent!
All of the common problems at once. I have to bookmark this thread.

Intel Macs under either Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6) (Apple > About This Mac) do not support Audacity 1.2. So let's start there.

I'm using Audacity 1.3.7 until the smoke clears from here...

Audacity 1.3.7 -- Mac
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... -1.3.7.zip

...but you can try the Nightly Build from here...

Audacity 1.3 Nightly Build -- Mac
http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac%2F

<<<I have been given some files>>>

Usually the kiss of death. You can't move Audacity Projects. In order to get very, very high quality speed during post production, Audacity does not make "sound files." It keeps everything in chunks and fragments until the final Export into the Client Deliverable Sound File. It's the chunks and fragments that kill you. If there were sound files imported into the show from somewhere else on the machine, say, /Users/koz/Music/Clips/SoundEffects/Automotive/, then those clips are very probably still there on the original machine. They will have to be sent to you as well as everything you did get -- and you'll need to put them back along with all the original folders.

The Audacity Project Manager (AUP file) keeps filenames and folder names carefully recorded. Put music in the wrong place or folder and Audacity will not be able to find it.

Not for the faint of heart this.

Anyway, assuming you have enough room on your computer for the completed show........ do you? Are you sure? The recovery tools will crash if they don't have enough room to work and they could make your computer unresponsive.

Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery

So, through all that, chances of recovery of the whole show are very slim, but not zero.

Is it too late to call in sick or go on vacation?

Koz

<<<If I open the the original program file and import audio they come onto separate tracks. >>>

Audacity automatically mixes down to Stereo when you Export a sound file, no matter how many tracks it had.

WAV files are big but do not damage the original show. MP3 is smaller, but damages the show.

Koz