Audacity Forum

Could there be a case for an option for automatic backups after 'N' number of edits? (Where "N" is a fairly high number by default (so as to not be a nuisance with quick and easy projects), but configurable in preferences.)

Gale Andrews wrote:This link should only return results for the Manual for the current release of Audacity:

Seems to give the same results as the search query that I gave

dexdex wrote:I should mention I did the mixdown with a famous german piece of software....

Why was that?
Was it so that you could have "real time" effects?

Why doesn't Audacity just use the recycle bin for all cases where possible? When closing a project, there could be tens or even hundreds of GB of temporary data to be deleted. Although modern hard drives can be very large, not everyone has a lot of free disk space, (particularly with new solid stat...

rabbithutch wrote: Is there any way to tell if it really is deleted?

Yes, it's very clear - when the track is deleted, it isn't there.
Note that most functions in Audacity are only available while playback is "stopped" (not playing, recording or paused).

I would like to record ONLY input channel 9. Is this possible? Not yet. It is not at all unreasonable that you should want to do that, but that requires that Audacity is able to "map" specific input channels (channel 9) to specific audio tracks (track 1). Audacity cannot do that yet, but ...

Unfortunately we don't yet have a search function for the manual. However, you can use Google to search the on-line version of the manual by beginning your search query with: site:http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/ For example, if you want to search for "recording tutorials" in the manual y...

Gale Andrews wrote: The bad news is that the AUTOSAVE files you posted are just nulls (zero data).

Not quite, but there is a load of invalid data at the start of the file.
As Gale wrote, unfortunately the file is irretrievably corrupt.

Do you still have the receipt?

Individual pages can be printed from most web browsers. "File menu > Print" "Open Office" (https://www.openoffice.org/) or "Libre Office" (http://www.libreoffice.org/) do a pretty good job opening html files, though some of the special formatting may not render correctl...