Computer shut down while recording

Question

I was using sound recorder in windows 7 and while recording  my battery ran out and the computer shutdown. Is there a way to recover that sound file as my recording was over an hour long

Answer 1

Sorry for the necro-thread, but the reply by Syed N is misleading and judging from the amount of views, a common issue. Your Sound Recorder file is stored in your temp directory as a .tmp file with ART at the beginning of the file name, followed by numbers. For example "ART1306.tmp".

I found a webpage that gave the following instructions to easily recover such data. You can find it here: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f217/solved-soundrecorder-exe-froze-while-saving-where-is-file-456820.html

In a nutshell the instructions are:

Open a command window as administrator (Click the START BUTTON | type cmd.exe into the Start Search box | RIGHT-click on cmd.exe | select "Run as Administrator") and paste this command into the screen -

copy "%temp%\ART*.*" "%userprofile%\documents"

Look in your Documents folder for a file with the prefix "ART", around the date/ time of the freeze. Re-name the file with a .wma file extension. Worked perfectly for me.

Answer 2

Works great. Thanks a lot. Copy the entire command below. 

copy "%temp%\ART*.*" "%userprofile%\documents"

Answer 3

Hi Pyrexid,

Unfortunately, you won`t be able to recover the file. Sound Recorder does not recover any files in case of accidental shut downs.

For general information:

Record audio with Sound Recorder

Recording audio in Sound Recorder: frequently asked questions

Regards,

Syed N – Microsoft Support

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