Audacity Forum

... write a rough draft if we can settle on an outline; I'm retired again <grin>. In an old post I pointed a user at these: Searching the forum for "incremental" gives lots of good info on the specifics of incremental backup: http://forum.audacityteam.org/search.php?keywords=incremental with these ...

There have been reports of issues when upgrading from 10.7.2 to 10.7.3 using the incremental installer. I believe Apple now offers only the "combo" installed (which will upgrade both 10.7.1 and 10.7.2 to 10.7.3). I've been holding off on my upgrade to 10.7.3 for ...

resetPrefs3 now does incremental backup of the current Prefs CFG file before initializing. I think that if we want to go down this road, we really need a full "Preferences Manager" (something along the lines of the "Equalization Preset ...

resetPrefs3 now does incremental backup of the current Prefs CFG file before initializing. You will have files with names like: audacityCFG7Feb2012_01_36_46.bak with the part: 7Feb2012_01_36_46 being: day-of-the-month_month_year_hour_minute_second ...

... the code would be easy. Just copy audacity.cfg as audacity.cfg.bak for "Backup" (overwriting any existing--maybe with back-out warning or some incremental naming scheme--but incremental is getting too complicated). "Restore" would reverse that, deleting the old .bak file (doing nothing if audacity.cfg.bak ...

... Give the beta a chance (but watch the forum for problem reports) but until comfortable with the beta be extremely careful to do frequent incremental back-ups and never ever work on original material!

... Is this not safe? These recordings are important (@ forum elves--we need to write up a sticky FAQ about saving raw data, working on copies only, incremental Project saving, occasional WAV backup and on/off-site/line backup storage etc.) David, I really know what you mean when you say "These recordings ...

... your code Team Audacity needs to look further into the problem. Second, good editing practice would suggest never overwriting a file--always do "incremental" saves*. Until you have listened to a song on a CD (never rely only on hard drive storage) keep at least a few of the most recent files ...

Thanks, I would never have found that. Yeah, it's simply rising from one Hz frequency to another over a period of time.

I appreciate your answer. Have a good one.

If you want a simple (sine) tone that sweeps from one frequency to another, try "Generate menu > Chirp".