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So I'm recording this pretty cool music, then it crashes on me. Nothing out of the ordinary, except I can't reopen it.

I've tried rebooting and trying to open it from another file. Thing is, Audacity opens up other project files --- just not the one that crashed. I've gotten rid of the recovery choice, so I'm trying to open the original project file. When it opens up, the bar is frozen in place (slightly blinking) and I cannot click anything; I'm forced to terminate it from the task manager.

Please help? I worked hard on the project.

lightflareon wrote:So I'm recording this pretty cool music, then it crashes on me. Nothing out of the ordinary, except I can't reopen it.

I've tried rebooting and trying to open it from another file. Thing is, Audacity opens up other project files --- just not the one that crashed. I've gotten rid of the recovery choice, so I'm trying to open the original project file. When it opens up, the bar is frozen in place (slightly blinking) and I cannot click anything; I'm forced to terminate it from the task manager.

What three-digit version number of Audacity are you using (Help > About Audacity) and what do you mean by you have "gotten rid of the recovery choice"?

If you are using a 1.2 version of Audacity then you have the possibility of using the Audacity Recovery Utility (instructions here) to recover the .au files in the project _data folder into a WAV file. This assumes you had actually saved a project and were recording into that already saved project. The .aup project file won't know anything about the audio you were recording if you were not able to save the project before the crash, so you need to piece together the recorded .au files using the Recovery Utility.

This isn't an explanation of why the project freezes when you open it. That may be because the .aup file itself was corrupted in the crash.



Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:

lightflareon wrote:So I'm recording this pretty cool music, then it crashes on me. Nothing out of the ordinary, except I can't reopen it.

I've tried rebooting and trying to open it from another file. Thing is, Audacity opens up other project files --- just not the one that crashed. I've gotten rid of the recovery choice, so I'm trying to open the original project file. When it opens up, the bar is frozen in place (slightly blinking) and I cannot click anything; I'm forced to terminate it from the task manager.

What three-digit version number of Audacity are you using (Help > About Audacity) and what do you mean by you have "gotten rid of the recovery choice"?

If you are using a 1.2 version of Audacity then you have the possibility of using the Audacity Recovery Utility (instructions here) to recover the .au files in the project _data folder into a WAV file. This assumes you had actually saved a project and were recording into that already saved project. The .aup project file won't know anything about the audio you were recording if you were not able to save the project before the crash, so you need to piece together the recorded .au files using the Recovery Utility.

This isn't an explanation of why the project freezes when you open it. That may be because the .aup file itself was corrupted in the crash.



Gale

1.3.8
I meant that I got rid of the option to recover after a crash (since I couldn't click on anything anyway).

So if the .aup file is corrupted, there is no way I can recover it?

lightflareon wrote:1.3.8
I meant that I got rid of the option to recover after a crash (since I couldn't click on anything anyway).

So if the .aup file is corrupted, there is no way I can recover it?

1.3.8 is obsolete and buggy. Please upgrade to 1.3.12.

Please post to the forum for the version of Audacity that you are actually using (i've now moved this to the Beta forum for Windows).

You could attach the .aup file so it could be checked for structure, though it might not help. You can recover the recording to a new WAV file in the same way as 1.2, except you will need to sort the files into date order and rename them before you can recover them. For example you can do that with xplorer2 - please see the instructions.

Inappropriate or outdated sound device drivers are a likely cause of crashes when recording. Always make sure your sound device has the latest drivers specific to your particular computer model and operating system, as supplied by the device or motherboard manufacturer. See Updating Sound Device Drivers.



Gale