Audacity Forum

Edit > Preferences > File Formats Select "make a copy of the file before editing (safer)" Don't "delete" the file just yet (in case of any problems, you may need it as a backup). Make a copy on a CD or another drive before you delete it. Unless you are very short of hard drive s...

I probably wouldn't use 1.2.4. It had memory leak and stability problems. 1.2.6 is good. Audacity does all of its work in Projects. It doesn't produce a single "sound thing" until you Export As Wav or other format. Until then, Audacity constantly uses all the components, clips, and files ...

I'm running Audacity 1.2.4 on Windows XP. I have a track in one Audacity file (one vocal harmony part to a song) that I want to incorporate into another Audacity file (the final mix). When I copy and paste, everything plays fine...until I delete the vocal part file. Then the waves still are visible ...