Audacity Forum

You start getting killed when you go over the 2G and 4G boundries--assuming you have that much room on your drives. Those are magic numbers where sometimes the operating system has something to say about how it manages the data. "Why did I get two oddball files I can't open instead of one big o...

Never "clean up" or change anything before the final export or show. This is a big problem over in video land. "I'll just get rid of all these temporary files to free up space before my final layoff to tape."

Koz

<<<So he might just end up exporting each track separately and importing them into pro-tools.>>> In other words that's a gentle way to tell you that you should be doing that before the edit session. "Don't worry about it, dude, I got all the 48/16/2 (or whatever) tracks all ready exported for y...

<<<I've never had a virus.>>. But you have a physical firewall, right? A recently made physical firewall with SPI and NAT programming, good password and access lockdown. I've never had any trouble either. I let all my expensive Norton's expire. I do let Microsoft virus inspector have its way with on...

<<<--how does one create a loop?>>>

What is the goal? What do you mean by loop? That's a loaded word.

Koz

<<<How does 38 gig sound?>>> It sounds like you're trying to avoid answering the whole question. <<<How large are your hard drives? How many do you have? How full are they?>>> More than one installation has gone in the toilet not because the System Drive filled up, but one of the secondary data driv...

<<<I don't understand what you mean by putting somewhere I'll remember and how to tell Audacity where it is.>>> If you're reeeely, reeeely new at this and the list of words inside the brackets... [Audacity, Preferences, File Formats, MP3 Export Setup, Find Library.] ...didn't make sense to you, then...

<<<you'll have to edit your registry>>>

That would be Dante's third or fourth ring of Hell?

Koz

Audacity has a Preferences file where it keeps track of all that stuff. We had all manner of troubles on a Linux install of Audacity until one of the Systems Operators figured this out and prevented it from being constantly overwritten and damaged. I'm betting that file didn't make it on the drive--...

Sorry. Missed one. After you get the unstuffed file, put it somewhere you'll remember and then tell Audacity where it is. [Audacity, Preferences, File Formats, MP3 Export Setup, Find Library.] I try to keep a file with all the installers and keys so it's easy to back up. I put the library there. Koz