Can I get back my original file after I edited it

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Can I get back my original file after I edited it

Post by baxter » Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:27 pm

Hi,

I made a big mistake with a song I was trying to make. After hours of getting it just right, I edited the the wrong part and saved it.
Is there ANY way to get my original file back?
Please tell me there is!
Thank you in advance.

Baxter

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Re: Can I get back my original file after I edited it

Post by kozikowski » Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:49 pm

If you still have Audacity open and you saved a Project, then UNDO should bring you back to normal. If you Saved the project and then closed Audacity, the original work is dead. Audacity Projects do not save UNDO.

Where did the song come from? Can you acquire it again?

You should Save your work as different names over the course of editing so you never have to back up more than one version if you make a mistake. The original work can also be Exported as a WAV file and moved to backup media. That's being compulsive, but I work with valuable performers and a reshoot, while not impossible, is very awkward.

Newbies also like to edit music by "stepping on" the original file every time they Save or Export. So instead of having Music1, Music2, Music3, over the course of editing, they only ever have one music file with successive corrections and edits. Damage that and the show's over -- permanently.

Koz

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