I use Audacity to record hour-long lectures twice a week. Sometimes, immediately after I finish the recording, I save the project to my desktop. Other times, after making the recording, I put my MacBook to sleep (with the Audacity project being unsaved) and wait until I get back to my room and connect to my external hard drive before saving the project. This has worked just fine... until recently.
After having made a recording and then putting my MacBook to sleep without saving the Audacity project, I later woke my MacBook up again and tried playing the file. When I hit play, there was no sound and all of the "vertical lines" of the recording disappeared and turned into one flat line. I then got this error message:
Now, having read a bunch of topics here on the forum, I learned that I could navigate to that directory and find the temporary files. I found that while the folders exist such as "d00," "d01," "d02," and so on, they are all empty.can't open file '/tmp/audacity1.2-kyle/project1342051912/e00/d01/e000133c.au' (error 2: No such file or directory)
Is there any way for me to get these recordings back? If not, why did the temporary recording files disappear?
I thought that my issue was somewhat unique because I never experienced an Audacity crash. This was just a result of putting my laptop to sleep without having saved the project, then waking it up again later.
As an extra note, because I didn't have time to look into this issue when it first happened, I made later recordings, which I saved to my desktop, all the while keeping this "messed up" Audacity file open [and still unsaved] in the background. Did making new recordings before working with this "messed up" project cause the "messed up" project's temporary recording files to disappear or be overwritten somehow?
Thanks for putting up with my newbie terminology. I GREATLY appreciate any help I can get.