Hi,
Yesterday, I installed Audacity 2.0.1. Then last night we were recording a live church service when near the end we lost all data and audacity started recording over. What happened and can we recoup the last data?
Ron
Loss of Data
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and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Loss of Data
If you ran out of disk space to record to, Audacity would tend to start writing again from the start and/or the existing recording would start to acquire gaps. See Recording Length for help. Nothing is recoverable if that happened.rjcarter wrote:Yesterday, I installed Audacity 2.0.1. Then last night we were recording a live church service when near the end we lost all data and audacity started recording over. What happened and can we recoup the last data?
If disk space was not the problem, please click Help > Show Log... then Log > Save... and attach the log ("Upload attachment" underneath where you post).
Gale
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Re: Loss of Data
Thanks Gale,
I believe that I ran out of memory. As it was pointing to the wrong drive.
I believe that I ran out of memory. As it was pointing to the wrong drive.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Loss of Data
If you have checked "Audio Cache" (Play and/or record using RAM)" in Directories Preferences, I suggest you uncheck it. You cannot recover any recording written to RAM if that recording crashes.rjcarter wrote:I believe that I ran out of memory. As it was pointing to the wrong drive.
Record to a fast local drive instead.
Gale
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