So I am completely gutted right now, I have an audio project due in two days and I just lost three days worth of progress when the program randomly crashed. Now I have an error message saying "warning missing audio data block files" and my two hours of audio are nowhere to be seen.
Is there a guardian angel out there who can show me how to go about trying to recover this project? I am in shambles over this, was just about ready to finish the project and now this is a huge set back.
I am using Audacity 2.4.2 in Windows 10. I attached my .au file and tried to attach the .data files but it wont let me drop the whole folder in there at once. Desperate for advice!
Begging for help recovering Missing Audio Data Block File(s)
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Begging for help recovering Missing Audio Data Block File(s)
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Re: Begging for help recovering Missing Audio Data Block File(s)
In versions of Audacity prior to 3.0.0, Audacity projects had two parts.
1. The ".aup" file (that you attached)
2. A "_data" folder containing all of the audio data for the project.
In your case, the _data folder would be called: "USC_Spring2021_IanBlake_Part3_data"
My guess is that moved, deleted or renamed the _data folder so Audacity can't find it, and that's why Audacity is complaining about missing data.
Since Audacity 3.0.0, and in the current Audacity 3.0.2, Audacity projects are now a single, self contained ".aup3" file. The new project format is intended to avoid these kind of mishaps.
The current version of Audacity is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
1. The ".aup" file (that you attached)
2. A "_data" folder containing all of the audio data for the project.
In your case, the _data folder would be called: "USC_Spring2021_IanBlake_Part3_data"
My guess is that moved, deleted or renamed the _data folder so Audacity can't find it, and that's why Audacity is complaining about missing data.
Since Audacity 3.0.0, and in the current Audacity 3.0.2, Audacity projects are now a single, self contained ".aup3" file. The new project format is intended to avoid these kind of mishaps.
The current version of Audacity is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
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