Audacity Crashing when applying Macro/Chains.

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hi all!

I have Audacity 2.3.0 and it will shut down when applying chains/macro and I don’t know how to fix it. I tried removing it completely from my computer a few times and deleting accompanying libraries etc. but everything still happens repeatedly.

When I reinstall things I can’t seem to find any of the files that seem necessary like the audacity.cfg/xml and others as shown in the image below.

Any help is very much appreciated!
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One specific macro or all macros?
If you make a new macro, does that trigger the crash?

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It seems to be other macros as well.

Would deleting other macros help do you thik?

I haven’t created a new macro for a few weeks so I don’t think creating one is what causes the crash (as far as I can tell.)

This specifically happens when I try to apply a macro to a “large” audio selection of something more than 30 mins or so.

Thanks for your help!

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It may be one of the commands in the macro that is causing the crash. What is in the macro?

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Here’s what’s in the macro.

Thanks!
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I presume that you know that Noise Reduction is a two pass effect, and that it does not currently support custom settings in Macros.

Try running each of the effects in turn manually to a long track and see if Audacity crashes. That may show where the problem lies.
I can’t reproduce the problem, but I’m on 64-bit Linux, so the problem may be specific to 32-bit Audacity on macOS.

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Running Audacity 2.3.0 on macOS 10.13.4, I can’t reproduce the problem either.

While the macro is running you should see a progress dialog as each effect is run. Do you see those or does the macro crash immediately?

– Bill