Audacity 2.0.6 damages 2.0.5 but not 2.0.3

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Mac Mini. OS-X 10.9.5 (Not Yosemite)

Audacity 2.0.5 is installed normally under /Applications. Audacity 2.0.6 and Audacity 2.0.3 are installed in “portable” folders (attached).

Audacity 2.0.3 appears to run just fine as does 2.0.6, but 2.0.5 hangs the window with the Spinning Beachball of Death and attached message. Changing focus and Force Quitting is the answer.

2.0.5 was the active, used version until the 2.0.6 install.

Koz
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Thanks for the report .

As you’ll know, 2.0.6 requires a later version of FFmpeg than 2.0.5.

Audacity has been fixed so that if you run 2.0.6 or later after 2.0.5, the incompatible version of FFmpeg that was configured for 2.0.5 won’t cause Audacity to freeze.

We can’t retrofix 2.0.5, so if you run 2.0.6 or later configured for the current FFmpeg then run 2.0.5, you’ll see the freeze you reported.


Gale

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As you’ll know, 2.0.6 requires a later version of FFmpeg than 2.0.5.

I do now.
Koz