Lost .aup files
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BillWarren
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Lost .aup files
I am using Audacity 1.3.12 on a Power PC G4 Mac with OS 10.5.8. In attempting to move some previously recorded music from Trash back into Music, the .aup part of the file seems to have disappeared. The .data files are apparently there. Is it possible to recover and access these files? If so, how? Thanks.
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billw58
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Re: Lost .aup files
Without the .aup file you are lost. The .aup tells Audacity how to stitch those hundreds of .au files in the right order.
How did the .aup file get lost? Have you done a spotlight search for it?
-- Bill
How did the .aup file get lost? Have you done a spotlight search for it?
-- Bill
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BillWarren
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Re: Lost .aup files
I don't know what happened. I was dragging the files from Trash to Music and when I dropped them into music, the .aup part disappeared. Spotlight finds the _data file but not the .aup. it's gotta be somewhere. i guess I'll have to do it over. ARRGH!!
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kozikowski
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Re: Lost .aup files
Is it inside the _data folder? Ive had unfortunate file transfers that ended up under the /Volumes folder and I'm not sure spotlight or search would find that.
Go > Go To Folder > /Volumes
Koz
Go > Go To Folder > /Volumes
Koz
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BillWarren
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Re: Lost .aup files
Indeed, I found one of them(sort of) inside the data folder. Apparently I wasn't careful when I dropped it into the Music list. There must be a better way to move these things around. Anyway, the one I found is missing big chunks ( some several seconds long, some a few minutes) and there is a message about "orphaned blockfile(s)" that suggests they be deleted. However, I am reluctant to do this since there is obvious missing data. is there any way to recover this?
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billw58
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Re: Lost .aup files
"Orphaned blockfiles" are .au files that exist in the _data folder but have no reference to them inside the .aup file. This suggests that the .aup file has been damaged in some way. Did you have a crash?
First, download and install 1.3.12 - it has much better recovery tools than 1.2.x. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac
If you are feeling adventurous, download the latest nightly build of 1.3.13-alpha from the top of this list:
http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... order=desc
I wouldn't recommend using it for production, but it has improved recovery tools over 1.3.12.
Work on a copy of the project. Click on the .aup file, shift-click on the _data folder, then option-drag the two of them into a different folder - this will create copies of the file and folder in the new location without renaming them.
Open the copy of the damaged project, and choose to not delete the orphaned blockfiles. Then go to Help > View Log. You should see a list of all the orphaned blockfiles. You could copy and paste that list into a TextEdit document (to save it), then quit Audacity and go looking for those blockfiles. Since they are not referenced in the .aup file it would be safe to remove them from the _data folder to some other folder. You could then import the .au files one by one and try to figure out where they belong in your project. Beware that each blockfile appears to start with non-audio data that you will need to edit out.
As for a better way to move things around, I always create a new folder to hold my .aup file and its _data folder. Then if I need to move them around I just move the folder.
Good luck.
-- Bill
First, download and install 1.3.12 - it has much better recovery tools than 1.2.x. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac
If you are feeling adventurous, download the latest nightly build of 1.3.13-alpha from the top of this list:
http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... order=desc
I wouldn't recommend using it for production, but it has improved recovery tools over 1.3.12.
Work on a copy of the project. Click on the .aup file, shift-click on the _data folder, then option-drag the two of them into a different folder - this will create copies of the file and folder in the new location without renaming them.
Open the copy of the damaged project, and choose to not delete the orphaned blockfiles. Then go to Help > View Log. You should see a list of all the orphaned blockfiles. You could copy and paste that list into a TextEdit document (to save it), then quit Audacity and go looking for those blockfiles. Since they are not referenced in the .aup file it would be safe to remove them from the _data folder to some other folder. You could then import the .au files one by one and try to figure out where they belong in your project. Beware that each blockfile appears to start with non-audio data that you will need to edit out.
As for a better way to move things around, I always create a new folder to hold my .aup file and its _data folder. Then if I need to move them around I just move the folder.
Good luck.
-- Bill