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TheColinDay
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October 20, 2017
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Corrupt audio file

  • October 20, 2017
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Just lately I've been getting an error message saying that Audition is having problems reading or writing to disk.  Despite the message, nothing drastic has happened - until today.  I've just recorded a 30 minute voiceover session and somehow managed to lose it all.  I saved it during recording a few times but when I stopped recording, I got dreaded error msg.  When I came to play the audio, it was just a short loop of a single phrase repeating constantly.

I'm running Adobe Audition CC 2015.2.1 on a late 2013 i-Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

I've run the hardware diagnostics tool on the Mac and it didn't report any problems.  I've also run the disk utility on the external drive to which the file was meant to be saved; again, no reported problems.

Not quite sure what to do next.  Obviously, I'd like to try and recover the sound file, if that's possible - to that end, I tried importing it as raw data, but no good - but more importantly I can't afford for this to happen again.  No idea where to turn and I'm hoping some kind soul will have an answer.

Please let me know if I can fill in any missing information.

Many thanks.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
Community Expert
October 20, 2017

Is this in Multitrack or Waveform view? Makes a huge difference, as audio is handled completely differently in each. In Waveform, all of your audio is written to a temp file whilst you're recording it, and not saved to the final destination until you hit stop, and actually save it as something. This has been the source of a lot of trouble for people in the past, when they haven't got enough room available in their temp folders.

Multitrack recording, on the other hand, writes your audio directly to the final file on the disk, and even if there's some sort of crash, it's possible usually to rescue it (HDD failure notwithstanding), so this is generally a much safer bet.

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TheColinDayAuthor
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October 20, 2017

Thanks for the reply.  Take your point, much appreciated -but it was all recorded in Multitrack view....

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