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Garage Band temp files?

last night at church, our sound guy was using garage band to record our service. the program showed the sound meters and the progress bar and the recording as it was being recorded. As a matter of fact, our sound guy says garage band looked as it always looks when he gets a successful recording.

BUT

when he hit stop to stop the recording, everything just went away. All indications that he had been recording disappeared off the screen.

does garage band create temp files? if so, where are they? what do you guys think happened?

I am the IT person, and on the windows side I'm a rocket scientist...on the Mac side, not so much. I'm hoping to recover a temp file or something since the pastor specifically asked for a copy of last nights service but I don't know where to look.

So, any ideas?

Posted on Apr 22, 2010 7:19 AM

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User profile for user: Christoph Drösser
Christoph Drösser
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Posted on Apr 22, 2010 9:23 AM

First of all: tell the sound guy that it's a bad idea to use GB for making important recordings in live situations. It tends to act up, and it's not really made for this purpose (that's not meant as an excuse for those crashes). Use a simple audio editor like Audacity, you can import the sound files into GB later if you want to work with them.

Your recording might still exist - go to the project package in the Finder (GB projects are really folders under the Unix OS), hold the ctrl key and select "Show Package Content". Open the Media folder - if it's empty, the recording is gone for good. If the audio file is there, drag it to the desktop, trash your original project, create a new GB project and pull in the audio file.
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Christoph Drösser
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Apr 22, 2010 9:23 AM in response to crp0499

First of all: tell the sound guy that it's a bad idea to use GB for making important recordings in live situations. It tends to act up, and it's not really made for this purpose (that's not meant as an excuse for those crashes). Use a simple audio editor like Audacity, you can import the sound files into GB later if you want to work with them.

Your recording might still exist - go to the project package in the Finder (GB projects are really folders under the Unix OS), hold the ctrl key and select "Show Package Content". Open the Media folder - if it's empty, the recording is gone for good. If the audio file is there, drag it to the desktop, trash your original project, create a new GB project and pull in the audio file.
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