What happened to the audio in my file?

[jabberwocky]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I just recorded an 1.5 hour long lecture along with notes using the notebook view of Word. I saved many times along the way (with the docx extension), and, when I closed the file just now, I denied the option to save it (because I the audio had resumed recording for a bit when I woke my computer from sleep, and I didn't want all that noise). However, I just reopened it again and there doesn't seem to be ANY audio attached! Even when I click on show audio markers, none come up. What the heck happened to my 15MB of audio?

Did I exceed the max file size (it gave me no warning of it)? Did it somehow get detached? Is the audio part saved elsewhere???

 

[John McGhie]

Sorry for your bad experience.

Audio recording in Word is not reliable, as you have just found out!

The mechanism is very flaky. I would recommend always starting a fresh
recording in a fresh document, because a document can contain only one sound
file: if Word gets confused, it replaces the existing file with the new one.
That's probably what happened to you.

I would never allow the computer to sleep with an audio document open
)basically, it's not safe to allow the computer to sleep with ANY Word
document open).

Sorry: But we don't know of any fixes for this mess. No, you did not
exceed a file-size limit: the maximum file size is over two gigabytes (well
over, on a powerful workstation under OS 10.6...).

Since you are saving in .docx, you CAN unzip the file. Make a copy, change
its extension to Zip, and double-click it.

Inside you will find a mini website. If the audio is still there, you will
see it in one of the folders. If you Google around, you will discover there
is a technique for playing that file in an audio program. Sorry, I don't
remember it off the top of my head: you may need to download a CODEC.

And in future, I wouldn't trust Word's audio recording

Sorry to be no help

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I just recorded an 1.5 hour long lecture along with notes using the notebook
view of Word. I saved many times along the way (with the docx extension), and,
when I closed the file just now, I denied the option to save it (because I the
audio had resumed recording for a bit when I woke my computer from sleep, and
I didn't want all that noise). However, I just reopened it again and there
doesn't seem to be ANY audio attached! Even when I click on show audio
markers, none come up. What the heck happened to my 15MB of audio?

Did I exceed the max file size (it gave me no warning of it)? Did it somehow
get detached? Is the audio part saved elsewhere???

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