Crash Recovery

If Sound Forge is terminated improperly, all of the opened and unsaved sound files—excluding those opened in Direct and read-only modes—can be recovered.

Unless a file is opened in Direct or read-only modes, a temporary file is created and any edits made are stored in this file. When an improper termination of the program occurs, these temporary files remain on your hard drive and can be reopened to recover any work done to the sound files before crashing. Also, the original sound files will remain unchanged until you save your work.

When starting the program after a crash, the Crash Recovery dialog is displayed if temporary files are detected in your temporary file directory: