Mr. Genius here just switched off his computer onto which he had recorded about an hours worth of audio, using Audacity. At any rate, when I switched it back on, there was a Warning window that said, “Audacity foaund temporary files that were not deleted the last time you used Audacity.
Audacity can’t recover them automatically, but if you choose not to delete them, you can recover them manually.”
How do I do this? I’m not sure where to look, and I’m fairly dense when it comes to temp file junk.
Can you help? I have XP, but I bought it used, so I don’t know which version.
Thanks,
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Did you save when you were recording? When I use Audacity, I “save as” when I first open a new file, then “ctl s” during/after. If you forget, audacity will ask if you want to save when you go to close it. If you don’t “save as”, you’re recording to the template or the original file or something. (I just download it yesterday myself, and I forget the actual terminology)
Anywho, when I shut down my comp with some of my files “un-mp3’d” I had no idea where to find them. So I made another file to see where it saved itself, and voila- there they were. I think they were just in the “my music” folder. I have Vista, but it seems like XP made it pretty easy to search for stuff. Maybe “music files” or “recently added?” Sorry if it seems like the blind leading the blind!
I find a lot of Audacity’s directions to be way over my head, so if anyone can point me to something written for the sub-layman, I’d be thrilled!
No, I didn’t save while recording, much to my sorrow.
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Oh, sorry. 
Still, if they’re manually recoverable, they must be somewhere, right? Maybe search for files ending in .aud? Sorry I’m not more helpful!