Audacity Forum

steve wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:59 am

What do you mean by the "cache folder"?

I trash the following folder and restart:

Library/Application Support/audacity/Session Data

I saw this suggested in a similar but not exactly related problem.

Incidentally, here's what I've done to trouble shoot so far.... - tried past versions of Audacity (worked back to 2.3) - working on an external hd, - deleting all audacity files (program/program files) off the machine & doing a fresh install - deleting the audacity cache folder which makes it work f...

I did that. I uploaded a 40 min .wav file. Took 33 seconds. Not great but usable. Then I applied Compression. The first quarter went smooth but then it crawled to barely any perceptible movement in the status bar where it just seemed to stall out. I'm resurrecting my podcast and Audacity is an essen...

steve wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:33 am

Do you use an anti-virus app?

Thanks for the reply, but no I don't.

What changed is I was running 10.6 forever, then upgraded to El Capitan and upgraded to the latest Audacity. It's just not working. It was working earlier that day and then just decided to stop behaving. Even rebooting didn't help. I've read elsewhere that others have had issues running it on El Cap...

I'm running Audacity 2.4.2 on Mac El Capitan. It's running extremely slowly. Took 15 minutes to open a 50 minute .wav. It was working fine earlier, but then stopped being functional. Has happened a few times now since I upgraded to this version and this OS. I rebooted, checked Activity Monitor. Noth...

Although I managed to install it, it won't work. I can't open audio or import audio. I can't drag audio into the project window either. Obviously, there's some issue or conflict with this version and my Operating System.

Oh, well, I can revert to an earlier version. Thanks.

Thank you. Copy and pasting the Audacity folder into the Applications folder manually did the trick. Not sure why the 'drag and drop' method wouldn't work but it's all good. Thanks for the tips.

They were Typos. I meant 2.1.2. I downloaded it from your site. I trashed the previous install. But it won't let me drag the program to my Applications folder. Usually that happens if I don't have the proper system specs but according to this site, it should run on OSX 10.6. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I'm running 2.05. Just downloaded 2.12 but it won't allow me to drag to my Applications folder.

Is it because I'm running a previous version or is 2.12 not compatible with OSX 10.6?

Thanks.