Audacity Forum

steve wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 26, 2020 6:54 pm

"Replace" is the selected button. Press spacebar to save, or press Enter to cancel.
I know it's weird, but that's Mac.

I can work with that. Thanks so much for your reply.

Thanks, yes that works. Great 8-) Any chance it will just be the same as the Windows port in the future? Replace was the default button in 2.3.3 and Enter flowed with the other dialogs of Save and OK. Nope, beacause that is a "feature" of macOS - those helpful folk at Apple juse decuded to so it di...

Mac kindly disables that for you by default - you need to turn on tabbing to buttons - See: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/03/15/tab-key-between-buttons-mac-os-x/ I already have my Mac set that way - and that's why I could apparently tab between buttons, but the focused button doesn't seem to w...

Tab does not toggle to the other button in any dialog boxes. Only moves through fields in the metadata box (expected). A liitle light went on Mac kindly disables that for you by default - you need to turn on tabbing to buttons - See: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/03/15/tab-key-between-buttons-...

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:40 am

As there are only two options you don't need to "grab the mouse" just use Tab to switch to the other button then use Enter

WC

Tab does not toggle to the other button in any dialog boxes. Only moves through fields in the metadata box (expected).

Thanks for the reply @waxcylinder The issue for me is flow. I am working on many small wav files. I make a copy of the source files into a working directory before opening in Audacity, so there's no "danger" of losing my work. In 2.3.3, I can hammer through keystrokes and not have to grab the mouse,...

steve wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:22 pm

Which version of Audacity do you have? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity").

Thanks Steve. I updated to 2.4.2 and it's working now. Now I have other issues in a new post regarding dialog default buttons.

Audacity 2.4.2 MacOS 10.14.6 Hi. So I have searched and not found anything on this. I just updated to 2.4.2 from 2.3.3. When exporting to overwrite a file of the same name, the dialog pops up that says "*filename* already exists. Do you want to replace it?" And the default button highlighted is now ...

Before using the Macro you need to "prime the pump". The ExportWAV command does not have any parameters - it uses the last used settings, so before running the Macro, manually export a file as 8-bit WAV. This is not working for me. The export window is defaulting to Windows 16bit every time it's in...

Is it me, or has the useful preference under Import/Export: "Make a copy of uncompressed audio files before editing (safer)" been removed?
If so, why!?