file storage

kevin

I have been using express scribe for about one year with good results. However, just recently I have encountered a problem related to file storage. First I will describe how I am using the program and then explain the question I have.

I collect digital audio files using a Sony recorder and download my audio files using the program supplied with the recorder. These files are non-wav files and are quite small. I convert these files to WAV and then use the load command to bring them into the Express scribe program where I do my transcription. I have been retaining the initial default file produced by the recorder and the WAV file and these files are starting to take up too much space on my hard drive.

I have observed that I can delete the WAV files that I loaded into express scribe and I keep access to my files. I suspect that when I load the WAV file that Express Scribe creates a third file but I am not sure. Even though it seems to work, I am afraid to erase all my WAV files for fear that I will lose or damage my audio and text data.

My question: can I erase these WAV files and still retain all the audio and text information that I have stored on express scribe?

I hope this is clear. I would greatly appreciate an answer to this question ASAP as my disk drive is really full.

Thanks very much!

Kevin

2socks

Hmm.. not sure if you still need this answer considering it's almost been a year that you've posted this question. But anyways, it won't do any harm in deleting the originals, I think (I hope). Express Scribe is still able to retain all the audio and text information. I know because I have (or rather Express Scribe has) accidentally deleted all my original wav files within the folder that I've specified for automatic incoming files.

I'm want to recover my originals though.....