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Cigánymisszió287904013kzh
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March 9, 2023

Source file overwritten or silent? Audition cannot saved them with backup files.

  • March 9, 2023
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Hi there,

I'm editing a podcast, and was in the closing stages, when my little son came in and plugged the hard drive cable out from the laptop (and played with the keyboard for around 10 minutes). All source files were on it. The software crashed, I tried to recover, but when I load it, the original sound file with the recording in it, was overwritten somehow. It is in its original folder and it is when I open a backup file. Nor the file became shortened, but when I open it, I saw the soundwaves, but there's no sound (no mute, of course) - other file in the same multitrack session is working. Is there a way I can recover the original version of my source file? It's a wav.

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Cigánymisszió287904013kzhAuthor
Participant
March 13, 2023

Thank you! I couldn't use none of the backup files because the source file was destroyed, probably when the drive were unplugged. Either I have to be more careful or copy the source file and use that, not the original.

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
Community Expert
March 9, 2023

However you look at it, this isn't an Audition bug, is it?

 

One thing you might like to look into carefully is exactly what you have got in the way of backed-up session files. The reason you should do this is because sometimes (actually quite often) you don't get offered the latest one as a recovery option - you have to chase that out for yourself. The only time that files are likely to be destroyed when a drive is unplugged is if they are actually being written to as the drive is unplugged. That's actually pretty rare.

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