Rename Files?

[Filename(02).wav]

I had a little recording session today.  Did a bunch of work on 3 songs.  In the largest session of the group I accidentally "scrubbed" the audio.  The session has many tracks and several full reverbs, neither of which were locked.  Audition froze, and disappeared.  I reopened Audition and recovered the last used session, all my files and edits were there, thank God!

I saved everything and closed Audition.  The band wanted to hear the progress so I fired up Audition again and brought up one of the session so they could hear.  The only button I pressed was play.  No faders were moved.  After listening I used the 'close all files and sessions' option to move to the next song, and Audition asked me to save about 7 of the tracks that had already been saved.  The only difference is the name, Audition added a number like this: Filename(02).wav.  I thought it was strange since nothing had been altered in the session!  Strangely enough, it did this same thing for the other two sessions.  So now I have 3 sessions, all of which have doubled in size because I now have multiple saved instances of the waveforms!

Has anybody ran into this before?  The only thing I can think is that when Audition froze, the pc didn't want to "let go" of the files that were opened and being used.  Kind of like opening a read-only file.  I've never had Audition behave this way, so I'm throwing this out to see if anybody has any ideas.  I'm sure it's most likely related to something I've done, or installed on the pc (only audio software installed, Audition and a couple VST plugins). 

File-saving anomalies have been noted before - I'd go as far as to say that this might be a bug, in fact. Adobe are certainly aware of the issue, that's for sure...

I have noticed that sometimes when Audition crashes it appears to have closed but if you look in Windows Task Manager an Audition process is still running. This might therefore be holding on to the files and causing the newly opened version of Audition to create new versions of the files.

I had this same thing happen today while working on 3 new sessions.  Out of the three, two wanted to rename all the files when saving the session.  On one I selected not to rename the files, and when reloading the session all the files where labeled as missing.  Easy fix, just select the real file.  Lucky we're not too far into the sessions, there's about 20 waveforms for each session.  As far as effects, there were only 2 parametric eqs in use.

I'm going to do more investigation tomorrow about this.

[(2)]

This happens any time Audition opens a different file that has the same name as a file already opened. Such as a file associated with a session that was previously opened. Even though you may have closed the previous session, the files for it are still open in Editor view.
So audition adds the (2) to the file name so that it can differentiate the two files.

The best way around this is to always "close all" or "close unused media" before opening a new session. Or if you really do need two files open with the same name, you will have to count on Audition re-naming one of them for you.

It's easy enough to replicate, just open two separate files with the exact same name. Audition will assign a number to the second one opened.

Tarnation's quite right here - I've had this happen several times. Every time it has been a result of not closing the wave files between sessions.

The only way I can see this happening is if the organizer window is displaying wrong data.  I keep that window open at all times.  I make sure that all the files are closed within all windows in Audition.