crash and data loss when trying to add effects

[gkergh]

I'm having to go back a few weeks worth of work with a project I've been working on for about a month. I duplicated a track and added an effect, and as soon as I did this, the program shut itself down. I found another post regarding this with the suggestion to rename the duplicate and try again. I did this, and once again, Audacity shut itself down automatically when I tried to add the effect. This time when I re-opened the project, the track I had tried to duplicate and add an effect to had been half erased, meaning that the work I had done on it was half gone. It's frustrating enough when the program crashes unexpectedly, but when the crash also deletes part of your work, it's even worse. It gave me the message about orphaned files, but what I don't understand is why it doesn't offer the option of just returning to what was originally saved. My only options involve adding silence. Why doesn't the software offer an option to ignore and go back to what the file was before the crash? This seems to be a serious design flaw: the fact that I've saved my work, and when the program gets confused about something I'm doing, it rewrites the file over what I've already saved while it's crashing. So essentially, even if you save your work periodically, a crash not only screws you out of anything you haven't saved but also things you have saved. http://forum.audacityteam.org/posting.p ... 04b40f70aa#

[bgravato]

It's considered to be a good practice to always make backup copies of the show in a lossless format (WAV or FLAC for example).

[steve]

I duplicated a track and added an effect, and as soon as I did this, the program shut itself down.

What was the effect? Can you reproduce the problem?