Sound Forge Pro 12 removed my file

Paul-Fegan wrote on 6/22/2019, 5:22 PM

Hi all, I just spent most of today editing over an hour's worth of audio book, perfecting it, saving it as I went along. At the very end, I ran an auto-trim crop and my PC stalled. It then crashed and I had to restart Sound Forge. Now the file I was working on is gone! How on Earth is it gone? I can understand that I might have lost the last 10 minute's work since I last saved, but where on Earth is the file. This never happened to me with previous versions of SF. Please help! Is there some way I can restore this file, even using file undelete or something?

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rraud wrote on 6/22/2019, 6:27 PM

Try looking in SF's temporary file folder. I do not recall the default location, but it is stated in SF's menu "Options> Preferences> General> Temporary files and record folder". Also look in the SOUND FORGE and Magix folders in User> App Data folders (Roaming & Local) When SF crashes, the files are in one of those folders... they usually have the <.tmp> extension. However, SF usually show a dialog box if the operator wishes to recreate the latest edit prior to a crash. btw, the App data folder is hidden by default. To see them, "View> Show/hide> hidden Items)"
Otherwise, you could try looking with recovery software, I have found ' missing' and 'deleted' files with Pinform's free Recuva. The missing files could have cryptic names through, so search by date, approx file size and other characteristics of PCM audio files, assuming of course tha was the format prior to loss.

Sorry for your aggravation Paul.

Paul-Fegan wrote on 6/22/2019, 6:44 PM

Hey Rick, thanks for your quick reply. Nice to speak to you again. Funnily enough, I was actually hastily downloading Recuva when your reply came in. A quick scan yielded nothing, so I'm doing a deep scan now. Will take about another hour, though. I had a look in the folder specified for temp files in prefs and there are lots of files there, but they seem very small to me? I'm attaching a screenshot to see if you can make sense of them.