Recording saved only as data file, no aup. [SOLVED]

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Recording saved only as data file, no aup. [SOLVED]

Post by dinahnow » Sun Jun 25, 2017 1:55 pm

I record the Sunday church service every week, but this week, when I hit 'SAVE PROJECT AS', and I gave it a title, then hit 'return', I saw the green bar moving, to show it was saving, but when I came to open it later, in RECENT, it was not there. So I looked in 'MUSIC' and there the title was, but only as a data file. No aup. So I cannot open the file, to edit it and put it on to a CD and on to the internet.
I've looked this up in the manual, but it's just beyond my understanding, sorry.
Can anyone help? Many thanks.

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Re: Recording saved only as data file, no aup. HELP please

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:10 pm

Did you let the green bar complete? You must not shut down the computer while the green bar is still moving.

This is the page you want in the Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/reco ... ually.html.

In other words, find the Audacity temporary folder, use xplorer2 Pro/Ultimate to rename the AU files in timestamp order, then make a new WAV from that timestamp-sorted data using the 1.2 Recovery Utility.


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Re: Recording saved only as data file, no aup. HELP please

Post by dinahnow » Sun Jun 25, 2017 9:36 pm

I did let the green bar complete.

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Re: Recording saved only as data file, no aup. [SOLVED]

Post by dinahnow » Mon Jun 26, 2017 6:30 pm

I am glad to say that I found the aup file after all - so I was able to bring up my recording as normal, to edit and copy onto CD.
The strange thing was that it had not registered under 'recent' files, which was why I thought it had not saved it at all.
But all is well, and I thank you for your help and patience with me.

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