Audacity Forum

Hi, I am having a problem with missing AU files in my audacity project. I recorded drums, guitar and bass for one of my band's songs. I finished all of my editing and saved and closed the project, when today I tried to look at the project, I am missing a bunch of the AU files of the drums tracks. I checked my other songs. and pretty much every song had parts of different tracks missing. I checked the folder which the AU files were located and I found that I had different AU files missing. I backed up the .aup file yesterday, but I didn't realize I backed up the au files themselves.

Any idea how this could have happened? And do you guys have any idea how I can fix that?

I also plan on saving each instrumental recording right after I record them as a .wav so I have that as a it's own back up incase this ever happens again. Does that sound like a good idea? What do you guys do for back up?

Thanks, any help is appreciated.

<<<Does that sound like a good idea? What do you guys do for back up?>>>

I Export WAV files constantly. I've never used an Audacity Project except for testing. They're too brittle and prone to damage. You understand how this works, right, a Project consists of thousands of different files managed by the AUP file. If all you did was protect the AUP file, you protected the conductor, but left the orchestra standing in the rain back at the bus station.

The locations of all the files is burned into the AUP file, so if you move or rename anything, the show turns to trash.

Export As Wav constantly. Those are stand-alone sound files and they're pretty hard to break.

You can also get problems like you have by filling up your hard drive. Are you? No production machine should have drives over 90% full. 90% is the place where OS-X starts having trouble managing real time events.

Koz