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How are these large files made? Are they Audacity recordings or something else?

Can you try with a different large file to see if the problem is specific to that MP3.

silenteditor wrote:I have over 200 GB available on the hard drive in question.

How much available space in "~/"?

OK, so we will need to get down to the fine detail, because obviously "something" is wrong.

If you shut down and restart Audacity, then generate a 30 second tone (Generate menu), and then try to save the new project as "my-project" in "~/Desktop/", what happens?

Soundflower is obsolete and unsupported. You could try "iShowU Audio Capture". This is a more modern version of Soundflower and is available free from: https://support.shinywhitebox.com/hc/en-us/articles/204161459-Installing-iShowU-Audio-Capture Please note that neither Soundflower or iSho...

I've re-read your first post:

silenteditor wrote:the file path in /home/] is not writable

That's correct. For a standard user account, the file path /home/ is not writable. Your "Home" folder is "/home/username/" where "username" is your log-in name.

I've not done this myself, so I can't offer any first hand experience, but the best information that we have is this page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/reco ... ually.html

Ensure that you are giving it a legal file name. In particular, don't use the "/" character.

the recording was done a long time ago Do you know which version of Audacity was used to make the recording? The project format changed between the 1.2.x series and the 2.x series. Whichever version, the chances of recovery are not good, but there's a chance that it's possible. How to go about reco...

Bottom line is, this "Window" menu entry behavior does not seem to be a macOS thing. It's not our place to "convince you", but neither Windows or Linux have a "Mac menu bar" at the top of the desktop. That's a feature unique to Mac operating systems. The Sierra version...