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Loss of Data
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:06 pm
by rjcarter
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
Re: Loss of Data
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:08 pm
by Gale Andrews
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 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.
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
Re: Loss of Data
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:25 pm
by rjcarter
Thanks Gale,
I believe that I ran out of memory. As it was pointing to the wrong drive.
Re: Loss of Data
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:43 pm
by Gale Andrews
rjcarter wrote:I believe that I ran out of memory. As it was pointing to the wrong drive.
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.
Record to a fast local drive instead.
Gale