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Now The Bad News - Computer Issues, Recordings Lost (Patreon)

Published:
2018-02-02 21:39:31
Edited:
2026-03-18 03:27:25
Imported:
2026-06

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My new computer is excellent, except for one thing.

When I make a file I save an Audacity backup and export an mp3 and a .wav of the session, while I'm working on it as well as when I finish it.

All of these, without fail, I discovered today when going in to work on something I've been making... are corrupted.

Anything I made on the other workstation is fine so I had the Creature of Impulse and Butt Bunny Pack. Recovery efforts lose a lot of data even when I try hard at it, so I'm gonna have to start recording several pieces from scratch including Butt Bunny 3 - Strapon Sleeve (except the tiny snippet I released as a sample), Centaur Transformation from Trials in Tainted Space (specifically fucking the two big breasted Leithan sisters in the bar on Poe A), The Weight 1 and 2 (a weighted blanket simulation trance with stage trance elements, and a file to accompany an actual weighted blanket if you have one, respectively), Incubus Apotheosis and Succubus Apotheosis (harem-style sexual fantasies in the style of the old Succubus Harem files), and Just A Little More Latex 3-5.

Am I an idiot for not exporting to a different device altogether? Yes.

Everything worked fine when I tried to reopen same day, but my pc restarted for updates and now every file which opened before reads as thoroughly corrupted and unuseable. So I'm switching to Audition as a test, on the same box, and if that fails I'm going to have to use my secondary box for all recording and shuffle the recording room. No big, only aggravating.

All new releases are slowed a bit by this, but expect me to resume toward the end of the month, and maybe publish some writing or choose your own adventure game demos I've been tinkering with as a stand in. 

About time I took some time to handle site improvement and to put up things on youtube anyway.  The polls end in 6ish days btw so make sure you vote in those.

I'll take even more stringent backup measures in future.

Comments

Orange

Damn, it’s too bad, that content sounds really awesome. At least you still have the scripts. Thanks for keeping us all up to date, I’m sure everything will be worth the wait when it’s ready! Good luck!

Rhys

Sorry to hear about the corrupt files :( ... But I'm extremely happy to hear about the latex files <3

Kevin

Poopsicles! External hard drives and cloud storage for next time.

eSuccubus

Did both, its that the audacity install interacted weird with the pc its on and saved the files corrupted from the get-go, which is why even the copies I stuck onto cloud storage were wrong. It could use the stored temp files until I restarted, or something like that. This is why I'm trying audition and as you say, continuing with cloud and EHD from that should mean no issues. But if they occur again, back to old reliable pc.

Kevin

well ain't that a sucker. I've played around with Audition myself. I think you'll appreciate a plethora of features.

MattyMatt

Ouch! Sorry to hear about the Audacity flaw😔 Sounds like you're on top of the issue now, hopefully you don't have to revert back to the old system🤔, not a good long term solution...

Wolf

What OS are you using? And could you upload to Google Drive one of the corrupted files -- just curious. I have Audacity on Win 10 and Debian.

Dominik

If you are running Windows 10, the next question would be if your primary drive is an SSD. Some SSD's have issues creating the cache files due to permissions. I believe in Audacity you can set a caching location in the preferences (at which point you make that a secondary drive, if we are talking a desktop). If you are using an Apple/Mac based platform then check in your Disk Utility if your Drive is formatted in APFS which has been giving a lot of people a lot of issues. If your machine is a custom build, is it Intel based?

Hanna Beatriz

I still do kind of drafts. On digital, i f many files work, I create folders: starting project, save on folder 1; continuing project, folder 2; continuing from 2nd, folder 3. And so on and on, if I make modifications, for example on a folder 3, I save on 3b, etc. At the end, if all went right, I delete older redundant copies as desired or needed. You ate not an idiot! You just trusted do much on the efficiency of something that should been better. It happens. Coincidentally my issues (if different, yet felt the same) with battery charge leakage. I forgot to turn off background apps and other things while unused. I learned what I said here when I suffered the same problem of yours at a previous job. Good luck with everything. You will do great, and from own experience, known you will improve on what you did before, on the way. <3

eSuccubus

Yeah its custom and it is indeed Intel based win 10. Also a 256gb ssd is my primary so I will try designating a cache location on the 1 tb hdd instead. Thanks!

Dominik

That is best, Windows 10 has issues with using primary ssd's as cache stores. Best is to locate the cache on the secondary mechanical drive. That being said, make sure your chipset drivers/sata controller drivers are the latest. You can get the Intel Chipset Update Utility to ensure thats happening. Corruption tends to happen when the controller is not working properly and corrupts data mid transfer. Your chipset drivers should be between 2015 and 2017 release. (Right mouse click on the Windows/Start button in the bottom right, go to Computer Management then Device Management then System Devices, then look for the Intel drivers right mouse click on each and make sure they do not have a 2006 release date)