On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:40:34 -0700 'bob cavanaugh' wrote: > Ok here's something else kind of strange, I just closed Audacity, and I was > going to save my changes to the project, but it didn't even ask me if I > wanted to do that, it just came up with 'Cleaning up temporary files,' then > closed the program. Hi Bob, The log should not have been empty and should have read in your screen reader. From your description, I think you have lost at least the track you cut from, unless you had saved a project before the cut, in which case you can reopen that saved project. Did you only receive the message about 'inconsistencies', and not any other dialogues about 'missing' or 'orphan' files where you had to choose an action? If so, the 'inconsistencies' are probably the clipboard data for the paste.
In the event of a crash while Audacity has unsaved data (such as a recording that has not yet been saved as a project, or an existing project with unsaved changes), Audacity will attempt to recover that data on next launch from an autosave recovery file.
In this case, Audacity will delete the files for this clipboard data without asking, hence the 'cleaning up' message. This happens because if you cut the audio but then crash or force quit before the paste, the 'autosave' file (the temporary AUP file from which the Automatic Recovery is made) has no record of the AU data files that are in the clipboard. This is because at that point, the track you cut from is empty. The AU files from the recording are in Audacity's temporary folder, though. The above probably explains why the track you cut from seemed to have no audio when you recovered the project. I don't know why the other tracks had no audio unless you cut all the project audio by accident. The golden rule is not to save a recovered project if it appears to be incorrect, but force quit again.
This retains the autosave file and the temporary data and lets you recover manually from the temporary data. There are a few different methods to recover manually, but what you would do is to rename the autosave file to some other extension such as 'auto', so as to stop Audacity trying to recover from it when you recover manually.
The autosave file is in Audacity's folder for application data:. The only exception to force quitting a faulty automatic recovery would be if you had saved the project containing the recordings before making the cut. In that case you could just say 'no' to 'Save Changes?' To discard the recovered changes then reopen the saved project that contained the recordings. We can look into what we could do about a crash occurring between cut and paste, but the safe courses to take would be save the project after recording (or better, export WAV files), and if you have not saved a project, copy tracks to another project, paste and then delete the tracks in the original project.
Gale > From: bob cavanaugh [mailto:bobdavcav@.] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 4:36 PM > To: Discussion list for Audacity users >Mac mail setup for office 365 account. Subject: [Audacity-users] did I just lose all my audio? > > > > Hi all, > > Did I just lose everything? Here's what I did, > > 1.
Earlier today, I recorded 3 airchecks from the headphone jack of my > radio into the line-in on my computer. As I hadn't had lunch yet, I decided > to leave Audacity how it was and return to scope the clips later.
Now I have > returned to do so, and it seems as if I can't. Since all the clips were in > one project on 3 different tracks, I was going to cut each track and put it > into a separate project.
However, when doing this the first time, I waited > for a couple minutes and Audacity did not respond after I told it to paste > the information, so I closed the program. When I opened again, it gave me > the automatic crash recovery, and I recovered the projects.
It then > complained of inconsistancies in the files and told me to select show log > for details. Now there doesn't seem to be any audio in the tracks that are > displayed. The log appears to be blank. What should I do?
Attachments: Hi all, Did I just lose everything? Here's what I did, 1.
Earlier today, I recorded 3 airchecks from the headphone jack of my radio into the line-in on my computer. As I hadn't had lunch yet, I decided to leave Audacity how it was and return to scope the clips later. Now I have returned to do so, and it seems as if I can't.
Since all the clips were in one project on 3 different tracks, I was going to cut each track and put it into a separate project. However, when doing this the first time, I waited for a couple minutes and Audacity did not respond after I told it to paste the information, so I closed the program. When I opened again, it gave me the automatic crash recovery, and I recovered the projects.
It then complained of inconsistancies in the files and told me to select show log for details. Now there doesn't seem to be any audio in the tracks that are displayed. The log appears to be blank.