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Please help me save my project
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:22 am
by burefan10
I was recording a rather lengthy listening for my foreign language class. With only 1 paragraph to go, Audacity blinked, gave me some message about an unexpected error, and stopped working. My project is there, but I can't play it. I can edit the little unnecessary bits (silence), but I can't record any more since the record button is grey. I can't neither save not export the project. All those options show up on the menu (not grey), but when I click on them, nothing happens. I am very frustrated with wasted time and do not want to restart. Any suggestions? Has this happened to anyone else? I use Windows 7, btw...
Thanks in advance!
Re: Please help me save my project
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:00 am
by kozikowski
<<<I was recording a rather lengthy listening>>>
You were.....what? You're a teacher producing a language tape for your students? So Audacity crashed during a live voice capture?
<<<lengthy listening>>>
Details are good. "I was recording a three-hour session."
Can we assume the machine is pretty new? Have you been recording hours and hours of work -- multiple classes -- since you bought it?
Win7 is still a little foreign yet, but I'm going to assume that the Disaster Recovery Tools work enough to get you out of trouble.
Crash Recovery
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery
Past that I'm going to leave it up to the Windows Elves.
Koz
Re: Please help me save my project
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:30 am
by burefan10
LOL, yes, it was a listening file for my students. I guess "lengthy" can be a relative term... in my case, I recorded myself reading a script... the length is about 23 min., and I was almost done. The machine is relatively new... I did have to record some stuff using Audacity this summer for my phonetics class, but that was before I installed Windows 7 on this computer. Since then, this is the first time I am using Audacity on it and I actually had to reinstall it since it got wiped off during windows 7 installation somehow. I looked everywhere on my machine, but can't find new *.AU files... just a few completed projects from last summer. I am going to try your suggestion about the Disaster Recovery Tools... although they did say something about a recovery tool that is already built into the beta version of Audacity 1.3.x? Argh, wish me luck.... thanks for trying to help! I appreciate it
