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So what should happen when you close the Mac Book Pro (if that is what the "MBP" is)? Is it meant to sleep? Or had it turned off (no power)?

The AutoSave folder is inside the same folder as the audacity.cfg settings file, so on Mac, exactly where Bill said:
Some autosave file must exist in that AutoSave folder. The autosave file is reappearing and offering recovery because you force quit Audacity after it fails to recover the audio. Force quit is the correct thing to do when Audacity recovers incorrectly because that preserves the autosave file. if you were to File > Close the projects without saving changes (or to save the silent projects), the autosave files (and the temporary audio data) would be deleted.

The only other way the autosave files would be retained would be if they were corrupted (which would probably mean that Audacity could not attempt to recover at all).

Even if the two autosave files can be found, they will presumably not find the data they are looking for because you moved the data from the temp folder to a "recorded files" folder. This is probably why the projects open as silence. So you will have to put both those "project..." folders back in the top level of Audacity's temp folder, or find the autosave files and adjust the path to "datadir" in line 3 of those files.

To find out what the autosave files are called, can you launch Audacity again. Look in the Automatic Crash Recovery dialogue that appears and note the names of the autosave files listed in the window. Then search your computer for all or part of those names.

If all you have is the AU files with no autosave file to piece the AU's together, then it means the usual story of using Automator to sort the AU files by timestamp and rename them while time-sorted into a consistent alphanumerical sequence. Then recover the renamed files with the appropriate Intel or PPC version of the Audacity 1.2 recovery utility (according to whether you have an Intel or PPC Mac).

This process is explained at http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... very_tools and you can download the 1.2 recovery utility from the links on that page.


Gale

Hi, i have the same problem.
at the time of the recording i bounced it out to an audio file and then thought it would have worked. i closed the laptop and then went back to it a few days later. On trying to bounce it out again because the first bounced file came up as 2GB with no audio in it. the program then crashed with the recording when i tried to save it. i closed it down and tried restart cycling and other stuff but to no avail. i still have the bounce out, one of the attempts has almost three hours from a 7 hour recording but a lot of people have been asking me for this recording and i would greatly appreciate helkp trying to recover this recording.

i tried to find the au files but i only found one with the 2hrs and also have a .ogg file that is just white noise

these are the lines i have in the autosave from that day (9th july crash date 6th recording date):

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//audacityproject-1.3.0//DTD//EN" "http://audacityteam.org/xml/audacityproject-1.3.0.dtd" >
<project xmlns="http://audacityteam.org/xml/" datadir="/Users/davidsheehan/Documents/ambar vinyl_data" projname="ambar vinyl_data" version="1.3.0" audacityversion="2.0.3" sel0="20547.6861678005" sel1="20547.6861678005" vpos="0" h="20546.6296598639" zoom="86.1328125000" rate="44100.0">
<tags>
<tag name="ARTIST" value="Ambar BAA"/>
</tags>
<import filename="Audio Track.ogg" offset="0.00000000" mute="0" solo="0" height="150" minimized="0" gain="1.0" pan="0.0"/>
</project>


Cheers heaps
Dave

bsdo wrote:Hi, i have the same problem.
at the time of the recording i bounced it out to an audio file

Audacity does not have a "bounce" feature. It has File > Export. Is that what you mean?

bsdo wrote:and then thought it would have worked. i closed the laptop

What exactly did you do before closing the laptop lid - did you File > Save Project? Were you still recording when you closed the lid?

bsdo wrote:then went back to it a few days later. On trying to bounce it out again because the first bounced file came up as 2GB with no audio in it.

If you export as WAV 16-bit PCM it is advisable to not exceed 2 GB because many applications won't read such files. For a stereo WAV file at 44100 Hz sample rate that means don't go over about 3 hours 10 minutes.

bsdo wrote: the program then crashed with the recording when i tried to save it.

Was the recording tall blue waves or silence (or blue waves with silence in-between the waves)?

Do you see complete, tall blue waves now? How long is the recorded audio if you do View > Fit in Window? Look in the TImeline above the blue waves to see the length. How many Audacity tracks are there that say stereo or mono?

bsdo wrote:i closed it down

Do you mean Audacity or the Mac?

bsdo wrote:tried restart cycling

Do you mean Soundflower or something else?

bsdo wrote:and other stuff but to no avail. i still have the bounce out, one of the attempts has almost three hours from a 7 hour recording but a lot of people have been asking me for this recording and i would greatly appreciate helkp trying to recover this recording.

i tried to find the au files but i only found one with the 2hrs

No single AU file would contain 2 hours. They are all about six seconds long by default.

bsdo wrote:these are the lines i have in the autosave from that day (9th july crash date 6th recording date):

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//audacityproject-1.3.0//DTD//EN" "http://audacityteam.org/xml/audacityproject-1.3.0.dtd" >
<project xmlns="http://audacityteam.org/xml/" datadir="/Users/davidsheehan/Documents/ambar vinyl_data" projname="ambar vinyl_data" version="1.3.0" audacityversion="2.0.3" sel0="20547.6861678005" sel1="20547.6861678005" vpos="0" h="20546.6296598639" zoom="86.1328125000" rate="44100.0">
<tags>
<tag name="ARTIST" value="Ambar BAA"/>
</tags>
<import filename="Audio Track.ogg" offset="0.00000000" mute="0" solo="0" height="150" minimized="0" gain="1.0" pan="0.0"/>
</project>

Did you save this as a Compressed Copy of Project at some stage? Saving a compressed project exports an OGG file. Please see this link for how compressed projects work http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fi ... compressed .

The only data that particular autosave file refers to is the file "Audio Track.ogg". If you saved as a compressed project, that OGG would have been exported to /Users/davidsheehan/Documents/ambar vinyl_data".



Gale