Lost Files in ADOBE Audition

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January 13, 2018
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Hi!! I was recording on Adobe Audition earlier and left it unsaved but with the laptop still turned on and plugged in. When I returned the computer had crashed and I had to disconnect it from the electricity supply and take out the battery to restart it. When it finally restarted there was a lot of the files I had recorded still on Audition but several more had disappeared. Can anyone offer me any advice as to whether I can retrieve these files or should I just be glad that at least there's some of them still there and go and re-record the missing ones (about four hours work!!!)? Many thanks in advance for your help, DLarks

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angelat92401595

Participating Frequently

I am new to Audition. I was told to record in wave files because I could track edits And it would always come up even if the system shut down. When I need to add a music bed I cut and paste into the multitrack. From reading this thread it sounds like I should always use multitrack.. is there any downside to doing it this way?

SuiteSpot

Inspiring

No - none. It is the safest and most efficient way of doing things and it is nondestructive

Bob Howes

Inspiring

Yup. Multitrack has evolved over the years and I now probably do 90% of my work in there, only moving to Waveform for effects that can't be done in real time.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet is the Auto Save facility in Multitrack. If you go to Edit/Preferences/Auto Save you can set things up to save your session and content files at specified time intervals...to specified locations. The location can be a second HDD or even some cloud storage. This won't help the OP's problem this time but can be a life saver in the future.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

If you were recording in Waveform view, be grateful that you've retrieved anything at all after a crash - you were lucky! If you were recording in Multitrack view, you should have everything intact up to the point of the crash, as it would have been written directly to disk, as opposed to a temp file in Waveform view. In Multitrack, the only thing that would trash your files completely would be a catastrophic HD failure.

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davidl76434072Author

Participant

Hi Steve and thank you for your answer. I was recording in multitrack / edit view. All the music tracks I had loaded are still there but there's only five out of about maybe twelve of the tracks I had recorded myself and added. I didn't notice anything that would have indicated a crash and would have been working for at least three hours or more after the last track that's left on Audition was recorded, but as I said I left it temporarily and came back to a blank grey screen. Many thanks for your help, I think it's time to get behind that microphone again!!!

DLarks

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

It does rather sound as though something failed without you realising it...

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