I had a long 15 hour recording and Audacity crashed while saving the project. I brought it up again and it asked me if I want to recover the project. I said Yes but after a few seconds it just died. I tried brining it up again but this time there was no message for automatic recovery. I did not see any .aup file at all - anywhere. Howver, there is a 9G _data file for the project that got saved.
How do I recover this project without a .aup file? Have I lost this 15 hour recording?
Please help.
Cheers
Crash recovery - No .aup file!
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Re: Crash recovery - No .aup file!
<<<How do I recover this project without a .aup file?>>>
I don't know anybody that's ever recovered a crashed recording under any circumstances. The way Audacity manages recordings biases it strongly against disaster recovery.
<<<Have I lost this 15 hour recording?>>>
That would be my guess. The forum is littered with people trying to do decades of hours of recordings in Audacity and not doing so well.
I have only a foggy basis for this, but I'm betting if you had a completely clean machine with no extra programs and no disk activity, capture buffer disks that were not too large but just large and fast enough, you might be able to deal with a show like that. The larger the show gets, the more Audacity has to manage places to put the capture segments. The more that happens, the more it bumps into disk fragmenting and artifacts left by other programs. When Audacity gets to the point where it can't manage its environment in real time, blammo. Crash.
By definition, then Audacity crashes, it can't write the last AUP file which is the roadmap of what it did with all the capture fragments.
Basically, no show.
The Windows people, in addition to the fragmentation problem, also have the virus thing. Sometimes, the Virus Protection Software itself slows things down to the point of causing a crash. "Wait! Wait! I need to inspect that packet to make sure it's safe!"
The other extreme of that is the hidden Trojan that's serving {word rejected} to the internet while you're trying to capture that violin solo. The server activity picked up and your capture crashed.
Computers are our friends.
Koz
I don't know anybody that's ever recovered a crashed recording under any circumstances. The way Audacity manages recordings biases it strongly against disaster recovery.
<<<Have I lost this 15 hour recording?>>>
That would be my guess. The forum is littered with people trying to do decades of hours of recordings in Audacity and not doing so well.
I have only a foggy basis for this, but I'm betting if you had a completely clean machine with no extra programs and no disk activity, capture buffer disks that were not too large but just large and fast enough, you might be able to deal with a show like that. The larger the show gets, the more Audacity has to manage places to put the capture segments. The more that happens, the more it bumps into disk fragmenting and artifacts left by other programs. When Audacity gets to the point where it can't manage its environment in real time, blammo. Crash.
By definition, then Audacity crashes, it can't write the last AUP file which is the roadmap of what it did with all the capture fragments.
Basically, no show.
The Windows people, in addition to the fragmentation problem, also have the virus thing. Sometimes, the Virus Protection Software itself slows things down to the point of causing a crash. "Wait! Wait! I need to inspect that packet to make sure it's safe!"
The other extreme of that is the hidden Trojan that's serving {word rejected} to the internet while you're trying to capture that violin solo. The server activity picked up and your capture crashed.
Computers are our friends.
Koz
Re: Crash recovery - No .aup file!
Then software is our enemies.kozikowski wrote: Computers are our friends.
Koz