Problems viewing recovery files

[taxali88]

Hello all,

I was recording an interview on Audacity today when, after two minutes of recording, it crashed. It happened in the middle of my interview, and I panicked, but had to remain talking as i did not want to lose this contact.

I opened Audacity again, and was greated with a horribly worded message box. The message box was asking me if I wanted to recover the files, so I clicked "yes." However, it was worded so that I had to click "no" to recover my files -- "do you want Audicity to throw the files away" insead of "do you want to recover the files?" I put full blame on me and not on the Audacity design team, as I should have read more carefully. I must have been nervous.

Anyway, thinking clearly later, I looked in my Mac's trash to see where Audacity had very politely thrown my files. I found two folders: Recovery and Recovery#1. I don't think these are the recovery files, however. There are no files in those folders with .au extentions. The files end in either .xml or .swf.

Where did the files go? Did audacity realy throw them away permanantly? Please respond soon, as I don't have much time and If the files are really gone then I really don't have much time.

concerned,
Ankur

EDIT: Those aren't the recovery files. Anyone know where Audacity dumps the temp files?

[kozikowski]

Plan on not recovering the interview. Audacity deletes files in the UNIX sense, not the Mac sense. 'You cannot UNDO this action..."

Koz

[kozikowski]

And yes, that is a sore point.

"Do you not want to fail to delete the recovery files [Y/N].

Wait, what...?

Koz

[taxali88]

Lesson learned.

Never trust a UNIX team with design.

[steve]

Never trust a UNIX team with design.

The main "NIX" used by the Dev team is Mac OS X

[kozikowski]

I can personally and with these fingers produce bad design on a Mac. It can be done. Sometimes I have to fight the Fuzzy-Warm® software to do it, but if I'm persistent and really concentrate, I can produce some real trash.

Koz

[taxali88]

lol i meant no harm by it, I swear! Audacity is probably the best and most fun free audio recorder for either OS. It's just designed, metaphorically anyway, behind a UNIX/windows-like GUI, which can cause some minor usability gripes. Can't ask for anything more from volunteers.

[steve]

Probably best to stop digging now