Saving Projects nows means beachball of death for me

[overmedium]

Hey All,

Everytime I save my project to my 10.3.9 ibook using both version 1.2.6 and 1.2, and also on my 10.4.11 macbook using version 1.2.6, the computer hangs indefinetely.

How to save my files so this doesn't happen?

Thanks in advance

[billw58]

Is this a new problem, or has it been happening since you started using Audacity?

The short answer is to upgrade to Audacity 1.3.9.

The longer answer is to get more details about your machines - including RAM, HD size, how full the HD is, the content of the projects that are causing the freeze, and other info that we may find we need as we narrow down the issues.

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

Let's see. The MacBook is an Intel machine and should be running 1.2.5. 1.2.6 is unstable on Intel machines. If you upgrade to either Leopard, all 1.2 versions will become unstable and you will need to run one of the Audacity 1.3 versions.

<<<Everytime I save my project to my 10.3.9 ibook >>>

Which is probably full. Go > Computer > Control-Click the System Drive > Get Info.

No production drive should be over 90% full. Less full is good.

Koz

[overmedium]

Hey thanks for your input guys.

I d/l'd 1.3.9, twice, and the app wouldn't open.

i d/l'd 1.3.3, problem solved.

so does mean it's hardware or software?

[kozikowski]

<<<so does mean it's hardware or software?>>>

Yes.

I use 1.3.7 for everything...

Audacity 1.3.7 -- Mac
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-macosx-ub-1.3.7.zip

1.3.9 may be a little advanced and 1.3.3 is a little too early for some of the better tools.

1.2.6 should have worked on the iBook after you cleaned out the hard drive.

Koz

[billw58]

I d/l'd 1.3.9, twice, and the app wouldn't open.

There's a trick to get 1.3.9 to ignore all your old 1.2 preferences and start clean. This might be worth trying.

Go to <your home>/Library/Application Support/audacity

In there you'll find a file called "audacity.cfg". Open that file in TextEdit. Remove everything except the one line "NewPrefsInitialized=1" and save.

I'll bet 1.3.9 will open after that.

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

What happened to the good old days when we told people to trash the cfg file and start over? I'm betting if mom's in a lot of trouble and need this puppy running right now, the last thing she wants is instructions to manually edit the computer's program.

Not Fuzzy-Warm...

Koz

[billw58]

What happened to the good old days when we told people to trash the cfg file and start over? I'm betting if mom's in a lot of trouble and need this puppy running right now, the last thing she wants is instructions to manually edit the computer's program.
Not Fuzzy-Warm...
Koz

Trashing audacity.cfg only works if you've never, ever had 1.2 on your system. Since this is the Mac forum, I could have told him how to trash both prefs files, which have different names and live in different places. Six of one ... At least he doesn't have to mess with the Windows Registry (of death).

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

<<<I could have told him how to trash both prefs files,>>>

All three.

Trash Mac Audacity Preferences
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8250&hilit=problems+with+save+with+export&start=10#p34670

Granted. However, if you do anything wrong while you have the .cfg file open, you can scramble yourself to death. This process is also missing the safety confirmation of having the system ask you "English?" when you get everything exactly right.

Koz

[billw58]

This process is also missing the safety confirmation of having the system ask you "English?" when you get everything exactly right.

Actually, editing audacity.cfg to the single line "NewPrefsInitialized=1" will get you the language dialog. I just did it about 20 times tonight testing a bug that a) crops up on a fresh install, and b) corrupts the preferences file. I got so tired of it I made an Automator action to do it for me.

-- Bill