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It is normal for USB devices to not have a recording level control. If the device does not have one, then Audacity can't use it, so Audacity greys it out to show that it is not available.

It is recommended that you make backups of recordings by (manually) exporting as WAV (or FLAC) immediately after recording. A potential problem with automating this would be that it could cause the hard drive to be busy when Audacity needs to write data from the recording, causing data loss in the r...

Before you start exporting, open "File menu > Edit Metadata" and remove all of the metadata. You can then disable the Metadata Editor from popping up during export, by deselecting the setting in "Edit > Preferences > Import / Export -> Show Metadata Tags editor prior to export step&qu...

If you are doing overdub recording, it is essential that you set up "latency correction"

How long is the track that you are trying to process?

What are you trying to do?

Automatic recovery is very good in modern versions of Audacity, which means that if it fails, the chance of recovery by any other means is poor. My computer died In what way? What exactly happened? Just looking for some concise steps to get my recording back The section in the manual about manual re...

Are you able to make a ZIP archive of the project and upload it somewhere (such as dropbox) so that we can try to reproduce the problem? (some other free file sharing services are mentioned in this post: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887) (how to make a ZIP archive is des...

Are you applying the Chain to the current project, or to files?

Try removing all of the effects from the Chain except for "Export MP3" and see if that runs.
If it does, add the effects back one at a time and test each time. My guess is that one of the effects is crashing.

Open the folder ~/Library/Application Support/audacity//Chains (you may need to use the "Go" menu in Finder because Mac hides this folder) Locate the Chain file that you have made and attach it to your reply. See here for how to attach files to forum posts: https://forum.audacityteam.org/v...