Hi, I recorded a two hour podcast earlier this evening, and when I went to save as I got an error code saying saying I ran out of disk space.
A. My laptop has over 20 gigs free and this was like 1.3 gig recording
B. I save all my projects to an external hard drive that has 4 out of 5 total terabytes FREE
So I don’t see how that could be true. After this error code, my audio wave disappeared leaving a 2 hour flatline in its place. Upon reopening audacity I tried to auto recover and got a new error saying audacity failed to read file in Volumes/extended storage. Now in my external hard drive the AUP project exists but when I open it I get the same error code. This show goes up on Friday mornings so I’m kinda stressed, my cohost has a busy schedule we already struggle to work around and I hate the idea of having a phony redo conversation. Any and all help would be very appreciated, thank you.
If anyone can fix for me (I don’t have access to a Windows machine) here his the link to the google drive folder
How did you determine the size needed for your recording (1.3 GB)?
Audacity keeps all changes you ever make to your project in a project file. This files becomes bigger and bigger while you are working on the project, since it does not only holds your music/sound, but really everything. And when you want to “save” the project, it probably needs double the size of the project file because it needs to create the definitive project file before it deletes the temporary one.
It may be a solution to not save the project but export as a WAV or AIFF file. Then you can continue to work on it without losing sound quality (they are lossless formats). But you’ll lose the possibility to undo previous changes, etc.
It also depends how your “extended storage” is formatted. Audacity does not work properly with FAT32 formatted drives.
The project size is 1.3 GB and I’ve done no editing so I assumed that’s the size it is. I will export audio before saving from now on. But I’ve done 52 episodes of my podcast using this external hard drive (formatted to MacOs extended Journaled) and never had this problem. And after double checking ive got 26 GB free on my Mac book and 4 TB on my external