Exporting file not appearing in windows explorer

[Scotz74]

Many thanks Steve but unfortunately all of the tracks are failing to export as Wav 32 bit floats. I assume that you mean exporting them by highlighting each track individually and then File/Export/Export as WAV etc?

[Scotz74]

Ah, hold that thought. I just noticed the 'export selected audio' option and that seems to work.

[Scotz74]

Thanks Koz but I followed Steve's suggestion and he was right, one of the tracks was corrupted, the keyboards. Funny the way Audacity doesn't tell you one of your tracks is buggered instead of making you think it's exporting happily but I suppose it has to give you a run for your money sometimes!

[steve]

one of the tracks was corrupted, the keyboards.

I'm guessing that you'd like to recover that track if possible.

Unfortunately I'm not able to give you a quick way to fix it, because I don't know what is wrong with it - this kind of problem rarely happens.
What I can do is give you instructions for sharing that track with us so that we can try to determine what the problem is, and hopefully fix it.

1. Open the backup copy of the project.
2. Ensure that it plays correctly.
3. Delete all of the tracks except for the bad track (click the [X] in the top left corner of a track to delete it)
4. Save the project with a new name ("Save Project As..."), and call it something like "bad-track.aup"
5. Quit Audacity
6. Make a ZIP archive containing the file "bad-track.aup" and the folder "bad-track_data" (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/hel ... -zip-files)
7. Upload the ZIP file somewhere (such as dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, Sendspace.com, ...)
8. Post the link to the file in your reply.

(If using a "web drive", ensure that you the file to "public")

[mellowcello]

Hi,
I also, all of a sudden, I can't save two open files. I'm using version 2.3.1. I know it's not the most recent version, but I can't download the newest one while I have the files open and can't save them to re-open once I download the latest version. Do I have any option besides losing the two files I have open? I tried to save them as a project, but that won't save either. HELP!
Thanks.

This came up a while ago.


Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

I checked CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 and LPT1--all OK, assuming others also good.
I see that COM1 & LPT1 etc. are excluded but wonder if COM & LPT should also be excluded for safty's?

Koz

[mellowcello]

Since I can't get open files to save (do not appear in Finder, I tried to save it track by track by "export selected audio", but this doesn't save either....
Now what?

Many thanks Steve but unfortunately all of the tracks are failing to export as Wav 32 bit floats. I assume that you mean exporting them by highlighting each track individually and then File/Export/Export as WAV etc?

[Scotz74]

one of the tracks was corrupted, the keyboards.

I'm guessing that you'd like to recover that track if possible.

Unfortunately I'm not able to give you a quick way to fix it, because I don't know what is wrong with it - this kind of problem rarely happens.
What I can do is give you instructions for sharing that track with us so that we can try to determine what the problem is, and hopefully fix it.

1. Open the backup copy of the project.
2. Ensure that it plays correctly.
3. Delete all of the tracks except for the bad track (click the [X] in the top left corner of a track to delete it)
4. Save the project with a new name ("Save Project As..."), and call it something like "bad-track.aup"
5. Quit Audacity
6. Make a ZIP archive containing the file "bad-track.aup" and the folder "bad-track_data" (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/hel ... -zip-files)
7. Upload the ZIP file somewhere (such as dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, Sendspace.com, ...)
8. Post the link to the file in your reply.

(If using a "web drive", ensure that you the file to "public")

Many thanks Steve but I'll trouble you no further. I managed to recover keys track from an original recording!