Help I think I lost 25 recordings

[Gale Andrews]

Thanks Gale, That is not any different from any choice of save or save as. I know you assumed that I didn't know the difference but that is not what I was questioning. I just don't think I need several different backups of my project. I just wanted one so I wouldn't have to repeat what I have to do now - start over recording each of the 19 albums again. My question was whether I was correct that by saving the project before I exported I could open it later and do further processing or exporting from the reopened saved project. I didn't realize that I could import a 32 bit Wav file and be able to work on the project again if I so desired. But I still think I prefer to just save the project right after recording and then overwrite it before exporting. Since it takes much longer to export than it does to just save the project, I would rather just export the wav file once.
Cindy

Hi Cindy,

I needed to make clear for others reading this that File > Save Project doesn't give you any backups.

In principle of course you should be able to save a project and reopen it, but as you found out, computers can crash.

Projects are two-part, the many small AU files in the _data folder and the AUP file that tells Audacity how to piece the AU files together. The AUP is saved last, after the AU files.

If you export your recording at any time (best done after you press Stop to complete the recording) then once the WAV export completes that should be a safe "backup".

The WAV contains the audio but it does not contain everything the project can contain. If the project contains labels , the WAV cannot contain the labels. But you can File > Export Labels... to export a text file containing the labels and import that label file back into the project.


Gale

[cwb]

THank you, Gale. That is exactly what I wanted to know.
Great program and great assistance. Imagine what it would be like if the programs we pay big bucks for gave us both.
Cindy