Audacity Forum

Yes, 755 on /var/tmp lets me launch Audacity as user bjornebe when /var/tmp/audacity-bjornebe already exists Which makes sense - as long as user permission for /var/tmp is no lower than 5 then any already installed tmp-files should be accessible by the applications that put them there. If memory ser...

Same message after a clean build" Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the preferences dialog. Then Segmentation fault. Bottom line it is down to permissions. On my box regular users have read/write 1777 permissions on /tmp but only read ...

Good question, I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib (old/bad habit) I will do a clean ./configure make and get back to you. BTW, this is on a 64 bit Debian 6/Dreamlinux install - unlike Ubuntu, it has /root :-) And yes, the message is "could not find a place to st...

Possible workaround: Make /var/tmp writeable for current user If that is not an option: Copy /root/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg to /home/YOURUSERNAME/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg and change the line TempDir=/var/tmp/audacity-root to TempDir=/tmp/audacity-YOURUSERNAME /tmp should be writeable by you, i...