Audition CS6 offline media cannot be found.

[chasen68920276]

My day was ruined when I found out the audio tracks in my session have been lost, I have searched every forum with these questions and the link media cannot find my files. I'm wondering if there is a backup or anything I can use to find my audio tracks. To elaborate, I used the save feature and later on tried re-opening it and none of my audio tracks saved. I have done everything I can if you have any questions feel free to ask. I need to find these tracks, I can't imagine they just vanished.

[Bob Howes]

I'm afraid the auto back up facility was added in one of the Audition CC releases but didn't exist back when CS6 was the current version.

My only suggestion would be, if you remember the file names you used, go to the Windows Explorer search function (or the equivalent on Mac) and search for the files outside Audition.  Once you find them (fingers crossed) you can steer Audition to the right place.

I say this because the only time I've lost files on Audition was when I rushed the Save feature and ended up putting files in a wrong project folder.

Good luck.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Well yes... When you used 'save' were you offered the chance at any stage to make a copy of the session files in the session folder? If you didn't do this, then whatever files you used will be in their original location. If you were using files that you'd generated during the session and hadn't saved, then you would have got warning notices to this effect before closing the program. If you'd created them in Wavform view you'd have got the same warning - Audition is a bit paranoid about unsaved work.

If, on the other hand, these were files accessed from a remote drive or server that isn't always available, then you have a completely different situation - even though you would still have been prompted to save local copies.

What it amounts to is that to work out what's happened, we'd need more information about the nature and status of these files...

[ryclark]

If you open your .sesx file in a text editor or .xml reader you will find a section near the end called <files> which lists the correct file paths to all the audio files used in the session. So this may help to lead you to where the audio is stored.