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I'm trying to visualise this - You are making a 5 hour recording of bird song, and when you press the Stop button your computer explodes....Theophilus20 wrote:It usually saves the project.
Sometimes it doesnt.
No, but you did come up with a squirrelly problem. Computer file management can get seriously Twilight Zone when you start using unacceptable characters in the filenames. 1/9/13. That's not today's date. That's a file called 13 inside a folder called 9 inside a directory called 1. And your computer will try to create that structure for you.Have you seen this Happen any where else?
I had to think a little about what that meant, reading it cold.kozikowski wrote:Not necessarily. You can use a short form:
Numbers, Upper and Lower Case Letters and Underscore or Hyphen from the same key.
How? Windows would not allow a file to be saved with forward slashes in the file name.kozikowski wrote:No, but you did come up with a squirrelly problem. Computer file management can get seriously Twilight Zone when you start using unacceptable characters in the filenames. 1/9/13. That's not today's date. That's a file called 13 inside a folder called 9 inside a directory called 1. And your computer will try to create that structure for you.Have you seen this Happen any where else?
Of course not. You will just see an error that the file name is not valid.Theophilus20 wrote:So, your thinking that the use of ( /) symbols when attempting to save a file will cause random sections of the project to dissapear and or make it saveable sometimes while unsaveable other times?
There is an occasional random problem that Audacity won't save to an xml project file (which could be the autosave unsaved changes file or an actual AUP file). I have only ever seen it happen myself with autosave files.Theophilus20 wrote:Anyone else have an answer
I've seen data disappear when the project being worked on or the temporary folder are on a network drive. Are you using a network drive? You have still told us very little about what you are actually doing and we can't see over your shoulder so we can only guess.Theophilus20 wrote:Anyone else have an answer or seen anything like this?
OK, but....I think we should say "hyphen-minus" anyway, to distinguish from Unicode hyphen.
Gale Andrews wrote:Of course not. You will just see an error that the file name is not valid.Theophilus20 wrote:So, your thinking that the use of ( /) symbols when attempting to save a file will cause random sections of the project to dissapear and or make it saveable sometimes while unsaveable other times?
Also note that what Koz said about "make a copy" only applies to importing uncompressed files like WAV or AIFF, not to recording. It's irrelevant if you are only recording, in which case the full data is copied into the project.
There is an occasional random problem that Audacity won't save to an xml project file (which could be the autosave unsaved changes file or an actual AUP file). I have only ever seen it happen myself with autosave files.Theophilus20 wrote:Anyone else have an answer
If it happens, I suggest you always export to WAV instead. If you have a label track, you can export that too.
I usually make an attempt to Export it in a different format if it doesnt save into the file folder i have created for it initally. This has never worked.
Do you have multiple projects open at a time? There is a longstanding but almost-never-happens bug that Audacity can move data around between projects that are open. So you will have missing audio data block files in one project, and orphaned block files in the project that the data was moved to.
No, only one project open at a tine.
Do you actually see "missing audio data block files" error messages when you load the project and find it has audio missing? If you see that error, don't choose to silence the audio.
No, I have never seen this error message that i can remember
Is the audio missing (shorter length that it should be) or correct length but a flat line where the audio should be?
The missing audio is the correct length, but, there appears a flat line in the sections of audio that "Disappears". I can watch the audio being created, and never see anything that would indicate something has happened. But, when i go to save it, a large portion of audio is now a flat line.
Is there any chance the AU files in the temporary or project _data folder are getting moved or deleted by some other program? Edit > Preferences, choose Directories. Where is the Audacity temporary directory? Do you have permanent permission to write there?
I dunno
How long are the recordings and what project rate? Note that you can't have tracks longer than just over 13.5 hours at 44100 Hz track rate, or the whole project will reopen "orphaned". The limit is shorter at higher rates. That issue will be fixed in the next 2.0.6 release.
The projects are anywhere between 45min to 1hr and 15min
Anyway, if the save error happens again, leave the project open, export your tracks, then open Help > Show Log... and save the log file. Attach the log to your post. Please see here for how to attach files: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=64936 .
I will try this and report back the next time it happens
Gale
Just to go over this again, when you create the show, the red sound meters bounce merrily and the blue waves pile up on the timeline absolutely as normal, right? You can Stop and then play several parts of the show as a quality control measure and everything plays just fine, yes?The missing audio is the correct length, but, there appears a flat line in the sections of audio that "Disappears". I can watch the audio being created, and never see anything that would indicate something has happened. But, when i go to save it, a large portion of audio is now a flat line.