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One possibility is that there may be corruption in one of the tracks.
You could test this hypothesis by deleting one track (click the [X] in the upper left corner of the track), then see if it crashes. Repeat for each track.

Could these "ticks" simply be mouth sounds? Obviously no-one wants to listen to a voice that sounds like the person is eating their dinner, but occasional slight "ticks" are quite normal. Some producers like to fastidiously remove every slight blemish, but most listeners will not...

marqueschaney wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:20 pm

and saving it to my desktop.

Good - does that copy work OK?

If you manually rename a ".aup" file, it will still look for its audio data in the original "_data" folder. This is the first part of your "Lovely Day_3a.aup" file (I've highlighted the relevant part) <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?> <!DOCTYPE ...

What seems to happen is that if you shift-click Solo too quickly then it quits 'multiple solo mode'. In "Edit menu > Preferences > Tracks Behaviors" What is our setting for "Solo Button"? If it is "Multi-Track", then "Shift + Click" twice on a track solo butt...

Can you open the project in Audacity?
Does the project play?

marqueschaney wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 7:48 pm

Could it be that my One Drive just kicked in randomly?

If your project is on One Drive, then that is very likely to be the problem.

When it crashes it just dies - no crash dialogue window. The first obvious symptom is that the 'Fit to Height' action doesn't happen - nothing at all appears to change. So Audacity "freezes" rather than "crashes"? The only odd thing that I notice about the project is that the fi...

Have the most recent version of audacity. The current version is Audacity 2.4.2 . Is that the version that you have? (Look in "Help menu > About Audacity") Tried saving the project or "save as" new project with no success. "File menu > Save Project > Save Project..."

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