Audacity Forum

Ok. This issue does not occur on 5.3.1 server network accounts. This must be related to our older servers. We're about to upgrade them so I won't be troubleshooting the issue further however.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks Bill, I'll check permissions once again. During testing I did see the lock file being created in the appropriate directory. Hi Cyrano, I think that you just may be onto something. I tested Audacity with a new 5.3.1 server and the network accounts had no issues. It seems to be related to our m...

No worries. Much appreciated. Thanks Bill.

Hehe, fair enough.

We currently have it running without issues on the same machines in Mavericks on those network accounts, but El Cap/Sierra is a no go so far. Hopefully one of those elfs will have a good suggestion or two

Thanks for taking the time to reply,
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