Audacity Forum

Thanks. Good point indeed.

In that case, I could temporarily move some photos and MP3s to the external drive, use the internal drive for my editing project, and then move all of those files back, could I not?

. It's now the I drive on my computer. Is that an internal or external drive? However, after going into preferences in Audacity and changing them to save things to the I drive, Exactly what preferences did you change? It's an external drive, and I changed the preferences for where to put the temp f...

A friend of mine offered his 150 Gig usb drive to me to use. It's now the I drive on my computer. However, after going into preferences in Audacity and changing them to save things to the I drive, I'm still getting a similar error message to the one above, only this time, G is replaced by I in the s...

Thanks for the suggestion and link as to how to divide up the project into tracks. I've been wondering how I could do that without risk of losing parts of the interview, which will be very important to my family members. I appreciate the help.

<<<Just one--an 80 gig drive that's divided into three partitions.>>> There are almost no benefits to doing that (unless you're on Linux) and some serious drawbacks. Most people create folders to manage their work. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that drive access speed has been compromised to the p...

kozikowski wrote:<<<once upon a time I created the G drive for working with my music files>>>

Wait, you created G:?

How many physical hard drives do you have?

koz

Just one--an 80 gig drive that's divided into three partitions.

Then there's the UNDO buffer which also has to keep the whole show up in the air one version late and then there are the effects buffers. 3.3 Gig would vanish before you could get your coffee cup up to your lips. Okay, so once upon a time I created the G drive for working with my music files--so th...

I'm trying to edit a large file--an interview that is nearly two hours long. Well, what happens is that I select a portion of the interview and try to do some tweaking with equalizer, or normalizer, or whatever. So then it begins the operation, but just about the time the equalizing is finished, I g...

Thanks again. I had figured that one out too, except for the doing the black arrow back to stereo. I appreciate your help.