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Nope, that's it. Thanks for your help anyway, Gale. It is much appreciated.

... it and become familiar with the basics before you take on the big job of 90+ tapes. The manual is included in the recommended download (in the Help menu), and the first page of the manual has links to just about everything. Also, the big picture of Audacity on the first page is clickable and ...

Thank you for the added suggestions. I will give those a try. I think they're right on track... I've made a bit of progress on my own as well. First of all, this doesn't seem to be a Yosemite problem after all. I switched to a different machine using Mavericks and experienced the exact same problem....

... grade English teacher taught me about paragraphs, so thanks for the reminder. Great to have so many dedicated, knowledgeable people willing to help a newbie. I don't have a problem with clicks or their removal. It's really not clipping that I have the issue. It's getting the red lines/marks ...

You have started to record your laptop built-in microphone instead of your device or dedicated connection. You can change that with your Audacity Device Toolbar. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html If you're using a USB microphone or device, remember Audacity may forget about it...

Unfortunately no...I deleted the old files yesterday before I started re-recording the project. :( I appreciate all of your help to try and resolve this! I wish I would have thought ahead enough to have kept the file so that it could be gone over to make sure something crazy didn't happen, ...

... picking up all sounds from device, even the clicking of buttons, when I'm not in Audacity. I've spent 90 mins going through online manual with no help, so this is my last resort. Really hoping someone can help. Matt

... bottom left to 48000 Hz if necessary, then Tracks > Resample... and click OK. This will resample all tracks to the project rate. If that does not help, experiment with different "Audio to buffer" settings in the "Recording" section of Audacity's Recording Preferences. That ...

Can you please help me with the settings?
I'm still a newbie

... for a new gap to add as the second track.. etc etc. That's a feature request for Sound Finder or Silence Finder. Does the attached Sound Finder help that has a "Minimum Label length (minutes)" control? This labels the sounds of the required length. Put it in the Audacity Plug-Ins folder ...