Any way to recover lost project?

[rpvee]

I had a project I'd been working on, but it wouldn't let me save the project, saying my disk was unwritable or full (neither of which is true). So I just left it open. A few hours later I went back to it and suddenly Audacity froze. I had to force quit it. I opened it again and it asked me if I wished to recover it. I did, but there was nothing but complete silence, no wave bars anywhere. I closed it and didn't save it, not that it would have let me anyways.

Is this project gone for good now? Or is there any way to get it back to how it was before the program froze?

[Gale Andrews]

I had a project I'd been working on, but it wouldn't let me save the project, saying my disk was unwritable or full (neither of which is true). So I just left it open. A few hours later I went back to it and suddenly Audacity froze. I had to force quit it. I opened it again and it asked me if I wished to recover it. I did, but there was nothing but complete silence, no wave bars anywhere. I closed it and didn't save it, not that it would have let me anyways.

Is this project gone for good now? Or is there any way to get it back to how it was before the program froze?

If you get that error, it probably means you are using an out-of-date Beta version that gave spurious disk full messages when there was silence in the project. If so, please upgrade to the current 1.3.12 Beta which does not have that problem. The solution to the problem in the old version is to Edit > Select > All, Edit > Copy, File > New then Edit > Paste to the new project, which you can then save.

If a crashed unsaved project does not recover automatically, you can recover it manually by date-sorting and renaming the .au files in the Audacity temporary folder. You can find the location of the temp folder at Edit > Preferences: Directories. Details at Crash Recovery. If you chose to close the project then the temp folder is cleared out and there will be nothing to recover.


Gale