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Why does Audacity create a folder full of .au files when I save a project?

April 26, 2017audacity create files FOLDER project

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Why does Audacity create a folder full of .au files when I save a project?

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Audacity breaks long tracks into small pieces so it can edit them more efficiently. When you save an AUP project file, Audacity stores all the pieces in a _data folder that has the same name as the AUP file. For example, “song.aup” will open the pieces inside the “song_data” folder.