.au files disappearing

[Without Motive]

We have Audacity installed on every computer on our school network.
Sometimes, when a user opens their Audacity Project, some of the data is missing and a number of the .au files cannot be found. More often than not, they have to start again.

Is this something Audacity is doing that it shouldn't?
Is it because we have Audacity running on a network??

We just can't work it out, and yet, the program works fine in other places.

Please help.

[steve]

You may well have problems if you try working on a network drive. If possible, keep all of your files on the local machine. Also, back up your work by exporting each track as a WAV file.

Also, see here: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ndent_file

[kozikowski]

When you ask Audacity to play your edited show, it literally builds the show, in the fly and in real time, from all the chunks, fragments, and clips you told it to use. There is no Sound File until you Export. The silly metaphor is somebody building a road ahead of you as you drive to the 7-Eleven and then taking it up again as you pass. You look back with your Big Gulp and packet of crisps and there's no road there.

If the clips, shards and fragments are on a network drive separated from the Audacity program, I can imagine all sorts of messy unstable things happening as the real-time requests collide with each other on the network. I also wouldn't be shocked to learn that once Audacity fails to locate a clip, it marks the clip as permanently damaged.

Koz