Help for Audacity on macOS.
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by steve » Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:56 am
theurbannerd wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:10 am
I recorded it using the rodecaster. Everything DID record and blue waves were there - I was in the middle of editing and then saved the project to grab lunch and spend time with my daughter. Closed the application thinking the whole project was saved. Then I opened up the saved aup file and that's where the flat line appeared and all the waves/audio was gone.
I can't make sense of this - I would have expected at least an error message, and I can't think of any way that a project could disappear without creating an error at least once.
Perhaps your project's "AUP" file may provide some insight. Please attach the project ".AUP" file to your reply (See:
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by theurbannerd » Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:01 pm
Here's the file.
- Ep1.aup
- (165.55 KiB) Downloaded 14 times
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by steve » Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:08 pm
Thanks.
The AUP looks OK.
Do you also have the folder "Ep1_data"?
If so, what is it's total size?
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by steve » Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:27 pm
As I feared, all of the data blocks are silent. There is no audio data at all, so nothing that can be recovered.
Did you make this recording recently, or is it an older project?
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by theurbannerd » Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:57 pm
Recorded it yesterday - so less than 24 hours.
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by steve » Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:17 pm
Has the problem occurred before on this machine?
Are you able to reproduce the problem?
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by theurbannerd » Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:28 pm
Nope. First time. I recorded a test and did the same behavior, made some edits, saved the file, closed audacity completely. Clicked on the file and it's opening up just fine. However, this is a shorter test file vs a 50 min audio file.
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by steve » Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:26 pm
Unfortunately I've no idea what might have gone wrong. I'm very puzzled that there was not at least an error message.
Hopefully the problem will never occur again, but it's worth remembering that computers are fallible (very much so). My top tip is to always export important recordings (immediately after stopping the recording) as a WAV file, so that at least you have a backup of the raw recording (ideally an additional backup copy on another device, such as an external hard drive).
If you get the same or similar problem again, or you have any idea of what may have occurred, please let us know.
