I have ~ 5 hour audio file and I had wanted to save about an hour of it. First thing I did was make a copy of the whole recording ( which now does not seem to exist) What I did was selected the hour I wanted, pressed cut and started a new session, pasted the selected segment and Exported to an MP3. What I ended up with is the full recording minus the part I wanted to keep, also I do not seem to have the copy anywhere that I cannot find anywhere that I was sure to make before hand. ( I am sure I was working on the copy),
is there a way to recover the full original recording? I do not seem to have a temp folder in the Session Data, and I did close and restart Audacity foolishly.
Thank you for any guidance, I would like to have this but in reality it is music and I am not sure I want to spend the 100 plus dollars on what seems to be the recovery software.