Computer crashed while Audacity was running

[ttyR2]

I was recording today and things were going fine. Half way through the last song I plugged in my thumbdrive to save the project to and when I looked back at the screen, the computer had done a hard freeze. Audacity wasn't moving, and the mouse was unresponsive. Rebooted and Audacity says the last project wasn't saved properly, and asked what I wanted to do. I picked Recover and got the error "Error: Not well-formed (invalid-token) at line 2975." I also don't see any files at all in the Audacity temp directory. The option in preferences to save as a different file every two minutes was checked, so shouldn't I have something I can salvage? This is bad news if I lost it all.

[waxcylinder]

See this wiki topic: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... shRecovery

WC

[ttyR2]

Using the info from the wiki page, the Audacity Recovery Tool in conjunction with the xplorer2lite utility I was able to recover everything (after using a file recovery tool to restore the deleted files) and ultimately have a .wav of the whole deal.

I'm no programmer, but it would really be nice to see a more robust recovering function built in to Audacity.

[steve]

it would really be nice to see a more robust recovering function built in to Audacity.

It would be nice to see less need for a recovery tool, and recent versions of 1.3.x have made great advances in that direction.

[ttyR2]

I'm no programmer so forgive me if this is already how Audacity works, but if it didn't delete temp files automatically and wrote an open-ended .aup file (or whatever the project file name is) in such a way that the file wasn't corrupted if Audacity crashed, recovery would be trivial I would think.