Power Failure, Do I have any chance at recovery?

[philip_w]

Hi,

I just finished up with an hour or so worth of recording using Audacity and was in the process of getting ready to save the file I had just recorded when the power went out for a brief 3 seconds or so, just enough time to prevent me from saving the file( I need a UPS backup).

So, I'm wondering if there the slightest possiblity that Fedora might have created a backup file or temp file that I can salvage from.

I would appreciate any comments on this one.

Thanks,

philip_w

[dwflo]

Originally Posted by philip_w

Hi,

I just finished up with an hour or so worth of recording using Audacity and was in the process of getting ready to save the file I had just recorded when the power went out for a brief 3 seconds or so, just enough time to prevent me from saving the file( I need a UPS backup).

So, I'm wondering if there the slightest possiblity that Fedora might have created a backup file or temp file that I can salvage from.

I would appreciate any comments on this one.

Thanks,

philip_w

It might be possible, but I doubt it. If you try one of the file recovery tools, you might find some remenance, but it might be damaged enough to be useless. It is worth a try IMO.
Does Audacity have an automatic save option?

[philip_w]

I just opened up Audacity and got this message in the following .png file: I assume I should not delete the file and choose 'No', but where would I find the missing file?

What file recovery tool would you recommend? Thanks.

philip_w

[patterj]

Not familiar with audicity, but I bet if you did a search by the file extension ex: *.aup, you could pull up a list of files from audicity. Check out when they were last modified and your file will probably have the time of when the blackout occurred. Try searching in your home directory, then maybe bin, then do a search on the root (/).

hope that helps - Jeremy

[philip_w]

Thanks for the response.

I found the files in /tmp/audacity1.2 folder, there are 170 total files worth. I can open them up in audacity but when they play the speed is a very fast and sound sounds like chipmunks talking. So, something got screwed. I can slow the speed down with audacity and make out what is being said, I just don't want to have to do that with 170 files, that would take forever.

I'm at a stand still and am still working at it but I'm hoping to open up one single file that I can play.

I hope I can fix this. I would appreciate any other and all suggestions. Thanks.

philip_w

[CuCullin]

Itd be worth it to check the date it was modified, that would narrow it down atleast.

[philip_w]

The different files have slightly different modification dates.

Here's the properties of one of the many files I have in the tmp folder:

'Fri 19 Aug 2005 07:52:36 AM EST'

Thanks,

philip_w