Audacity Forum

IIRC, that was a system that had been upgraded from Lion to El Capitan, all the way, without any clean reinstall in between... That sounds like my MacBook all right. I've run the script to remove developer tools. But unless I start getting weird crashes all over the place (not just with Audacity), ...

The Xcode app itself has been deleted a long time ago, and no evidence of it running can be found in Activity Monitor. I will use the instructions (thank you) to expunge the rest of the developer directories from the system, but I don't believe Xcode was the culprit. What "SamplingTools" was remains...

P.S. the only references to "Sampling" that I can find on my system (using EasyFind) are related to Quartz Composer (2011 developer tools) and Quartz Frameworks and Private Frameworks, whatever those are. There is no such animal as "SamplingTools" per se that I can find. My uneducated guess is that ...

Are you trying to run Audacity in Xcode? Have you installed Xcode... and is that application in use and part of your audio chain? Xcode was installed in 2011 for something or other but I don't think it's even compatible with the current OS. How can I tell if it's running? If there's a simple way to...

Audacity 2.1.2, OS 10.12.1, MacBook Pro 2011 This could possibly be a continuation of the woes I posted here (which haven't recurred) but the symptoms differ so I'm creating a new topic. Twice Audacity crashed on trying to "save project as" (i.e. I want to create a new iteration). It starts creating...

Well, today during my attempt to save a new project Audacity (v2.1.2) popped up with a debug message before crashing ("SamplingTools needs to take control of another process for debugging to continue"). On restarting the program it managed to recover most of the project except for two clips, where a...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have not had any more problems today since starting over, so I hope it was a gremlin that has decided to depart. One of these things probably fixed it (if it is fixed) and I'm sorry I didn't have the time to isolate which: I verified the drive (it was fine), fixed p...

Hi Koz, I'm not complaining at all about audacity's inner workings, just trying to establish whether my workflow is at fault or there is a better way of editing multiple clips together. It's been a while since I've used audacity, but I've never had any issues with file integrity, so I'm a bit freake...

Hi Gale, thank you. The projects were created in 2.1.2. The .wav files have two channels by default, so even though the left & right are the same they ought to be recognised as stereo. I haven't tried 2.1.3 yet; however, today I did delete my preferences (etc.) folder, rebooted, and started afresh w...

Thank you for the further suggestions :) . There are no plug-ins/add-ons apart from the Lame & ffmpeg libraries, so I shall ditch the settings folder in case (e.g.) there are some weird leftovers from a previous version. The drive verified fine but I also ran a permissions fix just in case, which wa...