File .aup turned to .au !!!

[Bertrand Treuil]

For my first using of audacity, that's a disaster ! I recorded more than two hours of an interview. At the end I checked the file and all was ok. When I came home I put the the file .aup into the file case _data (certainly my big mistake). A new file case called e00 was created with into others file cases and a lot of short files, many pieces of five seconds of the interview. I can't open the original file . aup anymore. Is it possible to go back to get my original file back ? I really hope so.

Pour ma première utilisation d'audacity, c'est un désastre ! J'ai enregistré un entretien de plus de 2 heures. À la fin j'ai vérifié le fichier tout fonctionnait bien. Quand je suis rentré chez moi, j'ai mis le fichier .aup dans le dossier _data ( certainement ma grosse erreur ). Un nouveau dossier nommé e00 a été créé avec à l'intérieur plein de petits fichiers, plein de morceau de 5 secondes de l'entretien. Je ne peux plus ouvrir le fichier original .aup. Est-il possible de revenir en arrière pour récupérer mon fichier original ? J'espère vraiment que oui.

[steve]

I put the the file .aup into the file case _data

Try moving the .aup file back to its original place.

[Bertrand Treuil]

Impossible here are the messages I have...

[waxcylinder]

This section from the manual explains about the structure of Audacity projects: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... jects.html

en Francais: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects/fr

WC

[Bertrand Treuil]

The problem : the original file is 319ko where as the e00 is 2,3Go.

[Bertrand Treuil]

[Bertrand Treuil]

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects/fr
This link doesn't help me. This is my first use of this application and there's to much unknown for me. With the pictures I present you all, I think you can understand what's going on. Is it possible to change the .au into the original .aup. I must also tel you , I did my interview in just one take. No cut.

[waxcylinder]

What the manual is telling you is that an Audacity project is made up a .aup file and an associated folder containing all the little.au files. The .au files contain little six second or so clips of the audio - the .aup file is like a recipe book telling Audacity how to assemble the project from all the little clips.

So you're not "tuning au into aup" - you need both - and as Steve told you they need to be in their proper original positions - otherwise the recipe does not work

WC

[Bertrand Treuil]

So what ? Does it mean I can't recover my original version in one peace ?

[waxcylinder]

If you move all those little .au files back into the Christian Leclerc_data folder it should work (unless you have deleted or moved any of the .au files.

WC