Please help salvage audio from QT Pro recording after crash, many thanks!!!

Question

I was audio-recording in QuickTime Pro. I forgot I had the recording running and put the computer to sleep. When I did a message came up saying that QuickTime had unexpectedly quit. I found the file that had been recording on my desktop, and the size of it suggests that the material is there. But, when I open it in QuickTime, I receive the error message:
Error opening the movie.
The movie could not be opened.
I checked my recording preferences: it is set to Automatic
Quality: Better (H.264)
It says beneath that the audio is 128 kbps AAC; although the file is saved with a ".mov" extension.
The only trouble-shooting I tried was at the advice of a friend which was to duplicate the file and add ".raw" as the extension and open it in Audacity. I did this and it imported the file as an MP3 but just played about 5 seconds of gibberish.
I would greatly appreciate anyone who can help me salvage this audio!!!!!

Answer 1

Any help or direction would be appreciated.
The first step is to determine the audio compression format. If the file loads into the QT 7 Pro Player, the check the "Format:" line in the inspector or the audio track in the "Properties" window. Once you/we know what audio compression format and/or the settings used, then it may be possible to tell the specific nature of the problem, wether or not it is normal, and how to solve the problem.