Lost data file but still have recorded tracks

mLeebowes · Post by **mLeebowes** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 5:36 am

I am using XP and 2.0x I think. Where can I verify the version of Audacity I'm using?

I renamed a saved aup file after working on it over some days. When I returned, the tracks were all there, but nothing in the yellow folder/raw data.

The Warning Message for the missing audio block files came up with the three choices, the first two as possible routes to recovering the data, but but none of them led anywhere fruitful.
So I went on the forum and found this information: "missing audio data block files", then open Help > Show Log... . The log will say which exact files are missing and where Audacity expects them to be. You can then search your computer for them and put them back in the exact subfolder stated in the log."
However, I didn't see or couldn't read in the log where Audacity expects them to be.

I tried to upload file, but was not successful. It tried to load my whole audacity file.
Which file should I send? The existing wave file or the log? How do I go about that?
Perhaps you can send me a link?

With appreciation for your help,
Maridel

Post by **kozikowski** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 6:29 am

I renamed a saved aup file

That was a bad idea. The only safe way to do that is open the show and save it as a new name in Audacity.

Can you change the name back? It has to match the name on the _DATA folder and they both have to match the name burned into the AUP file.

Open your AUP file in any text editor and read the first few lines. It should say "projname=" in there somewhere.

Koz

Post by **Gale Andrews** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:20 pm

mLeebowes wrote:I am using XP and 2.0x I think. Where can I verify the version of Audacity I'm using?

As it says in the pink panel at the top of the page, you can check the Audacity version at Help > About Audacity... .

mLeebowes wrote:I renamed a saved aup file after working on it over some days. When I returned, the tracks were all there, but nothing in the yellow folder/raw data.

Where and how did you do that? If you rename by doing copy and paste of both AUP and _data folder inside the same folder, then open the copy of the AUP, you can end up losing all the data.

mLeebowes wrote:The Warning Message for the missing audio block files came up with the three choices, the first two as possible routes to recovering the data, but but none of them led anywhere fruitful.
So I went on the forum and found this information: "missing audio data block files", then open Help > Show Log... . The log will say which exact files are missing and where Audacity expects them to be. You can then search your computer for them and put them back in the exact subfolder stated in the log."
However, I didn't see or couldn't read in the log where Audacity expects them to be.

I tried to upload file, but was not successful. It tried to load my whole audacity file.
Which file should I send? The existing wave file or the log? How do I go about that?

Attach the log from Help > Show Log... . There should be a button or a menu to save the log.

Also attach the AUP file.

Please see here for how to attach files: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=64936.

Then just quit Audacity, without saving changes if it asks that. If you save the project with audio data missing you can't get that data back.

Gale

Post by **Gale Andrews** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:25 pm

Also, please be careful with Windows XP. Microsoft are no longer officially supporting it, so it will be unpatched or not fully patched against any new security vulnerabilities that appear.

Ensure you have a good third-party anti-virus application. Be aware though that this will not give you complete protection against a previously unknown attack.

For some extra protection you can install http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/jj653751 .

If it is not practicable for you to update to the much more secure Windows 7 or Windows 8, you can consider installing a Linux operating system instead. Most versions are free and all are very secure.

Gale

mLeebowes · Post by **mLeebowes** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:09 pm

Thanks for your detailed reply, Gale.

I changed the name in Audacity, did not cut and paste.
I don't know how to find "any text editor" to see the name of the file.
How do I do that?
Maridel

Post by **kozikowski** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:25 pm

Right click on the file > Open With > Notepad, TextEdit, Even Word for Windows would do it, but you have to be careful not to save the work when you're done. Just close.

Koz

Post by **Gale Andrews** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:58 pm

mLeebowes wrote:I changed the name in Audacity, did not cut and paste.

So did you do File > Save Project As... ? If so you have two projects, the one with the original name, and the one with the name you chose in Save Project As.

If that is what you did, does only one project have missing block files, or both?

Please attach the AUP file or files and the Audacity log if you still need help.

Gale

mLeebowes · Post by **mLeebowes** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 12:38 am

Hi Gale,

No, I didn't do "Save As" unfortunately.
I opened the files, did right click and selected "Rename," which it allowed me to do, but when I returned, I had the problem.
I was able to attach the aup file, but don't know how to access the log from here. How do I do that?

Thanks for your assistance, much appreciated.
Maridel

Post by **Gale Andrews** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 4:35 pm

mLeebowes wrote:don't know how to access the log from here.

As I said, Help > Show Log... (top right of the Audacity menus). There is a button to save the log at the bottom of the log window, or if you have still have the outdated 2.0.3 version of Audacity, click "Log" near the top, then "Save...".

Have you looked to see if there is a _data folder that has the same name as the original name of the AUP file? That is one likely place the missing AU files might be.

Gale

mLeebowes · Post by **mLeebowes** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 5:55 pm

I do have the 2.0.3 version but didn't know it was outdated.
The only place I can find the Log file is under Help at the bottom of the list, but as soon as I click on it, the rest of the program becomes unclickable making it impossible to save.
I don't see any other Log button "near the top."
I do now have the Log file in the tray at the bottom of my screen, but still don't know how to access it to upload.

Yes, I have a _data file by the original name, but there is also an aup file by that name and it isn't the updated one. Contains the original version rather than the one I had been working on over several days.

I apologize for making this process difficult, but truly do not see how to send that log file to you.

Thank you.
Maridel

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