Audacity Forum

I don't remember if this is in the thread or not, but have you trashed your Preference file? Go > Home > Library > Application Support > audacity (trash the whole folder). Restart Audacity and it should ask you "English?" at first birthday. You need to put all your custom settings in again, but tha...

<<<my powercore plugins seem to take ages scanning as well.>>> We're all ignoring the real complaint. Audacity does not take ages to start. If it does, then we need to take steps to fix that. Do you run MacJanitor or do you know how to run 'Periodic' manually? If you haven't done that in a long tim...

1) Audacity does not "scan" folders. 2) Audacity saves its data with a ".AU" extension. These files are not the same as .AU sound files (though historically they may have been based on that format) 3) I think that the only file association that Audacity sets up is with .AUP files, and this is an op...

As above

I'd rather it not scan my components folder as I do not want to use any plugins with audacity apart from anything included, and my powercore plugins seem to take ages scanning as well.

Thanks in advance

I don't think Audacity scans the whole machine looking for plugins. It always goes to the same places. I think if you create a folder outside of the Audacity application cloud and pull the extra plugins over to it, Audacity will not be able to find them. I don't think you can stop Audacity from loa...

How do I stop audacity from scanning plugins at startup?

It takes ages to start because it has to go through all of my powercore plugins can't seem to figure out how to stop it scanning the folders.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance