Recover recording after network share dropped?

[JonathanLennox]

I was using Audacity 1.3.14-Beta to record on a Windows 7 machine, storing my recording onto a Windows network share.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the recording, my connection to the network share failed.

The network share has about an hour and twenty minutes of .au blocks stored on it; however, the .aup file is empty (does not reference any .au files at all), since I was recording straight through so I never had the option to save the file.

Opening the .aup reports all the .au files as orphan blocks, but my only options are to delete them or ignore them.

I was recording in stereo (importing from a minidisc).

Since Audacity itself didn't crash, Crash Recovery didn't trigger at all -- Audacity just reported that it was unable to save the file.

Is there anything I can do to reconstruct the .aup file -- e.g. to run Crash Recovery manually?

Thanks!

[Gale Andrews]

I was using Audacity 1.3.14-Beta to record on a Windows 7 machine, storing my recording onto a Windows network share.

That is not a good idea. Always record to a fast local drive if at all possible.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the recording, my connection to the network share failed.

The network share has about an hour and twenty minutes of .au blocks stored on it; however, the .aup file is empty (does not reference any .au files at all), since I was recording straight through so I never had the option to save the file.

Opening the .aup reports all the .au files as orphan blocks, but my only options are to delete them or ignore them.

I was recording in stereo (importing from a minidisc).

Since Audacity itself didn't crash, Crash Recovery didn't trigger at all -- Audacity just reported that it was unable to save the file.

Is there anything I can do to reconstruct the .aup file -- e.g. to run Crash Recovery manually?

So you saved an empty track as an .aup, then recorded into that project, but could not save it again?

In that case, it would have been best to immediately copy the "autosave" file from Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacityAutoSave. This is usually in C:. You may have to unhide this folder using these instructions . If you only see a .tmp file in the AutoSave folder, rename the .tmp file to .autosave and copy it. Then force quit Audacity to force the Automatic Crash Recovery when you restart. This will use the autosave file, but in case of a problem you now have a copy.

I don't know what steps you followed after the recording failed but if there is no autosave file from just before the share failed, you have to sort the .au files by time then rename them to make a manual recovery using the 1.2 recovery tools . This will still most likely leave some blocks transposed between left and right channel, so I would just re-record since you still have the MiniDisc.



Gale