Audacity 1.3.12 - How to transfer over projects from 1.2

[wavdav]

I had been using Audacity 1.2.3 for a couple years with no problem but i...

went ahead and downloaded Audacity 1.3.12, opened a project that was done on 1.2.3 and there was nothing.. the audio tracks were flat lined. So i closed 1.3.12, went back to 1.2.3 and the project wouldn't open so i guess the project is lost?

whatup?

[kozikowski]

You're experiencing the reason we urge, strongly, that you Export As WAV whenever you get anything valuable you want to save. Audacity Projects do not make good archives.

Alternately, you could have a damaged project because you damaged it. Audacity doesn't copy music inside itself for editing unless you change it in Preferences. It uses snippets and clips from music files and just leaves each music file right where it is.

If you moved, renamed, or deleted the song file you were using for clips and snippets, no more clips and snippets. That portion of your edited song will be silent.

This kills people regularly when they try to move a Project to a new computer -- or worse, email a song to somebody. It also kills the neat people. "I'll just clean up all these songs that I don't need any more." And there's the edited show in the dust bin.

Can you put all the songs back? That does work if you remember what and where they all were.

Koz

[steve]

Audacity doesn't copy music inside itself for editing unless you change it in Preferences. It uses snippets and clips from music files and just leaves each music file right where it is.

See here for more information about how Audacity handles files: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/File_Management_Tips

For future reference, Audacity 1.3.12 has a new tool to help users avoid problems with missing data files: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... ies_Dialog