audacity crashed

hi gang

while i was editing some tunes audacity crashed.the computer got slower and i got that messags saying audcicity encountered some problems and needs to close.sorry 4 the enconviance.why would this happen?

lenny

If your computer stayed slow, it may be running out of hard drive space. If you’re on a Windows machine, you may need to defragment as well. Audacity will not run into a full or badly fragmented hard drive. What’s the size of your hard drive and how much is left?

Koz

hi
the crash happened while i was exporting a tune to the desk top.

lenny

The desktop is a folder or directory on your main disk drive. If you pile enough stuff on your desktop, the machine will crash just as well as if you had put stuff in My Documents or My Music.

What kind of machine is it? Mac?

Koz

hay koz…

dell demension 1100 with an xp os…

lenny

ps after i edit a tune i leave it on my desktop till i get enough songs for a cd.what else can i do?