Audacity Forum

Symptoms I record only during daylight hours, my studio is open 9a-5p EST. When I open Audacity in the morning after an overnight respite.......I can open the program, but if I press the record button or any other button for that matter there is no response and if I continue to press I get the ....n...

Ok, but Incredimail runs 24/7 for me. I'll disable it tonight and see.

Thanks for your patience on this one.

Bob H

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Back to square one. I disabled Norton overnight and the attached screenshot will tell you the results. Honestly I can't see anything else running during the overnight hours. I'm stumped

Bob H

A reboot always solves the problem.

Update I disconnected the internet overnight and Audacity functioned after I reconnected. Now we can be fairly sure that something online is interfering with the sound card. Tonight I will keep the internet running and disable all functions of Norton to narrow that down. If that's the case I may hav...

The 'not responding' message happens if i try to click the record button. i'll try disconnecting from the internet tonight and see what happens. Will keep you posted

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I'm attaching 2 screenshots. This only occurs overnight and I even stopped the overnight backup but i wonder if there's a conflict with my Norton 360. Could that be doing something overnight? As soon as I reboot it comes back and stays that way.

No changes Gale, still with the Presonus, I will try with the internal device.

Hi Koz

Recording voice only, no music. The program just freezes and won't allow me to start a recording then it tells me that Audacity is not responding. Only rebooting the computer makes it return.