Audio Disappered but still plays?

[gianni1693]

so i was recording a song and all the audio was there, the usual, and then i pressed these some buttons by accident and all the audio disappered but the audio track bar is still there...and then i thought i lost everything but if i play it you can still hear everything, it's weird. can anyone tell me how i can regain sight of the audio please??

[steve]

Without knowing what you have done it is difficult to tell you how to undo it. I would strongly recommend that you Export each track in your project in WAV format as soon as possible. I don't know what you've done, but it does not sound good.

[waxcylinder]

As Steve says, export some safety copy WAVs before doing anything else.

What I think you may have done is to click in the vertical scale panel (which lives between the track itself, the blue waveforms, and the Track Control Panel on the left). If you hover your cursor over the scale box you will see a little magnifying glass appear. Left clicking enlarges the scale and the waveform - right clicking diminishes. If you get it into a total mess, closing Audacity and then reopening it and opening the project file should clear this view back to normal.

WC