I am running Windows 8.1 and Audacity 2.0.5
My hard drive may have to be wiped out or replaced. Is there any way to save my Audacity files? They are important EVP files that cannot be replaced.
My hard drive may have to be wiped out
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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kozikowski
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Re: My hard drive may have to be wiped out
There are recovery companies that can take a hard drive and scoop off "what's left" after the damaged segments are isolated. The companies know how valuable they are.
Google search term:
hard drive recovery
Koz
Google search term:
hard drive recovery
Koz
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kozikowski
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Re: My hard drive may have to be wiped out
Wait. Is it dead now? Or it's going to be dead? Or somebody is going to dead it for you?
Mount an external backup drive and search for and copy all your EVP files.
It would be good to know what's wrong with the computer.
Koz
Mount an external backup drive and search for and copy all your EVP files.
It would be good to know what's wrong with the computer.
Koz
Re: My hard drive may have to be wiped out
Thank you.kozikowski wrote:There are recovery companies that can take a hard drive and scoop off "what's left" after the damaged segments are isolated. The companies know how valuable they are.
Google search term:
hard drive recovery
Koz
Re: My hard drive may have to be wiped out
If the drive still works, do as Koz said. A flash drive or data disk will also work. You can also save the Audacity folder from Program Files and the Audacity data folder. I'm not sure where it's located in Windows 8, Program Data possibly. Make sure you save audacity.cfg. When you reinstall, just replace the newly created Audacity files and folders with the ones you saved and it'll restore your old configuration settings, plugins, chains, etc.
Re: My hard drive may have to be wiped out
If the drive is still working. copy the files to another drive while you have the opportunity.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: My hard drive may have to be wiped out
See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/pr ... tml#stored .pdun459 wrote:You can also save the Audacity folder from Program Files and the Audacity data folder. I'm not sure where it's located in Windows 8, Program Data possibly.
Gale
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