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Glad you're having fun Dave :D An easy way to zoom out so that you can see the entire recorded track is to press Ctrl+F If you click somewhere on an audio track you should see that there is a vertical line at the place that you click - this is the "playback position". If you then press Ctr...

You need to be very careful with "special" characters such as "%" as they can have special meanings (you must have seen "%20" sometime in a web address - it's a code combination for a "space" character). Also, Windows has quite extensive rules about characters...

You should probably check in the XENYX manual, but I don't think that the fx work through the USB connection. I think what you will need to do is to record "dry" (no effects) then add effects on after - Audacity includes a range of effects, and many more can be added as "plug-ins"...

This article explains the structure of an Audacity Project, so it will give you an idea of what you are looking for. http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/help/manual/man/audacity_projects.html If you are lucky the deleted files may still be in the Recycle Bin, in which case you will be able to rest...

Open the Realtek HD Audio Manager and select the effect that you want from the "Sound Effects" tab.

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... oting#sync

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... _Issues#cp

See here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 58#p186058

stroberts3 wrote: "Error while writing WAV (Microsoft) file (disk full?). Libsndfile says ", 0sA (other garbage characters here)".

There are some invalid (garbage) characters in the metadata.
Click the "Clear" button in the Metadata Editor, then continue with the export.

Zoom out so that you can see the whole track http://manual.audacityteam.org/manual/h ... oomproject
You should then be able to see the silent part (flat blue line).
Click, select, zoom in, delete as required.