Comments on: Audacity Tip of the Day – How Not to Lose Data! http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2009/09/19/audacity-tip-of-the-day-how-not-to-lose-data/ Watching Open Source unfold across Ireland Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Otto http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2009/09/19/audacity-tip-of-the-day-how-not-to-lose-data/comment-page-1/#comment-22430 Otto Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:04:15 +0000 http://www.theirishpenguin.com/?p=283#comment-22430 Yeah, watch out that you keep your files you put in Audacity wherever you left them if you want to save space by depending on them. If you do have the flat-line of death, you could have either: 1: Moved the depended file to another directory since placing it in Audacity. 2: Renamed any part of the directory the file was using since the placing. 3: Renamed the audio file itself since placing it in Audacity. 4: Edited the file too much. (you can't use something to save over itself) 5: Deleted the file. If any of these are the case, you could either take back all the new names and restore them to their original, THEN copy the files in Audacity, or you can open up the Audacity ".aup" file with a text editor like SciTE, find a directory or all the directories that have since changed and edit them to whatever the new ones is. (Using a 'Find and Replace' function if it's a big project) If you deleted the file, there's always a chance that it's in the Trash or Recycle Bin. If not, then that's about the end of the file, I'm afraid. Yeah, watch out that you keep your files you put in Audacity wherever you left them if you want to save space by depending on them. If you do have the flat-line of death, you could have either:

1: Moved the depended file to another directory since placing it in Audacity.
2: Renamed any part of the directory the file was using since the placing.
3: Renamed the audio file itself since placing it in Audacity.
4: Edited the file too much. (you can’t use something to save over itself)
5: Deleted the file.

If any of these are the case, you could either take back all the new names and restore them to their original, THEN copy the files in Audacity, or you can open up the Audacity “.aup” file with a text editor like SciTE, find a directory or all the directories that have since changed and edit them to whatever the new ones is. (Using a ‘Find and Replace’ function if it’s a big project) If you deleted the file, there’s always a chance that it’s in the Trash or Recycle Bin. If not, then that’s about the end of the file, I’m afraid.

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