Audacity Forum

Thanks for posting back with the solution.

A note: If you reinstall Windows Audacity, look for the reset preferences check box. Check it.

Koz

Something like this? http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=333409#p333409 Are you set for Auto Windows Update? There are pages of Google hits of Windows 10 updates messing with audio services and systems. Anything in that post help? Have you ever done a cold shutdown? Shift-Shutdown. It will...

I assume that you mean "C:\Users\username\Desktop" Correct. Some Desktop environments (notably on Linux) hide Desktop icons by default. That would seem to not be useful. What's the philosophy/metaphor? My physical desktop hides things, but it's from advanced clutter, not because Ikea made...

C:\Users\Desktop?

Depending on how large your Audacity windows is, the screen capture will pop up on the desktop right in front of you.

I have had systems try and second guess where my files and folders are. It never goes well.

Koz

You don't have to post on the forum. If you have a posting service like Dropbox, you can use that. It's nice to think we can give you a standard list of corrections, but it doesn't work like that. As you found, pre-baked lists are usually pretty awful. The other thing you can do is point us to a pod...

I set up a click track By that you mean Generate > Click Track? Do your settings look something like this: Screen Shot 2017-09-05 at 16.34.57.png And timeline look like this when you get done? Screen Shot 2017-09-05 at 16.36.38.png Where do we lose it? The click track settings I believe are default...

I don't want to overproduce this, and many of the effects appear to damage more than help. Isn't that the most fun? Everyone seems to agree Noise Reduction is a no-brainer best practice for spoken word podcasts, so I'm doing that. Everyone agrees on this because they all have noise. Do you? Can you...

It is, instead, usually fractionally off: for example, -1.0010 dB or -.97901 dB, or -.99091 dB, etc. Do you recognize clinically obsessive? Clipping, as was previously discussed, and as I understand, only happens when you go above 0dB. To be absolutely accurate, Audacity doesn't clip. The internal ...

At last, someone makes backups Exactly. We're going to send you cookies/biscuits. The usual forum posting is from someone whose project crashed and took them all the way back before the first time they turned on the microphone. Who made the flash drive? I've never heard of one crashing. How do you ...

basically reducing the frequencies We can't go with "basically." You need to tell us which of the subliminal suites you're trying to achieve. When you run an Audacity filter, effect or process, you have to use real numbers and settings. We have to have a testing process. When you read for...