I’m using Audacity 2.4.2 on a Mac running 10.14.5 and am having a problem sometimes with editing.
Some times when I select something and delete, it gets replaced with a silence (a blank section) that I then cannot delete.
Here’s what I see:
Well, I can’t load the screen shot, but maybe I don’t need to.
One more: when I try to move the section around the blank spot, “select, copy, paste” into the correct spot (before the blank space), I’m told that there’s not enough room to paste.
I’ve been dealing with this for a while, trying to figure out why the space occurs, why I can’t delete or cut it and searching the forums for similar questions but to no avail.
thanks in advance
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If you select a portion of an audio track and then do Edit > Remove Special > Split Cut or Edit > Remove Special > Split Delete Audacity will leave blank space instead of moving the audio to the right of the cut/delete.
Another possibility is in Preferences > Track Behaviors. Make sure that “Editing a clip can move other clips” is checked. With this option not checked Audacity will move the audio to the right of a cut/delete within a clip but will not move clips to the right of the edit.
Here’s what the manual says about this setting:
Editing a clip can move other clips: > If the track has been split into more than one clip, any clips following to right of the edit point can always move as necessary in response to pasting, cutting, deleting or other change that adds or removes content.
Unchecking “Editing a clip can move…” pins clips so that they cannot move in response to an edit in another clip. When removing content, any following clips will not be allowed to move back. When pasting, an error message will display if there is not enough room to paste without moving the following clips.
I solved it with this;
Unchecking “Editing a clip can move…” pins clips so that they cannot move in response to an edit in another clip. When removing content, any following clips will not be allowed to move back. When pasting, an error message will display if there is not enough room to paste without moving the following clips.
And now I have a problem entering text into a note on the label track sometimes. The audio is selected too and I can’t enter text into the note. A right click gives me the “edit label” and I can enter it that way, but why doesn’t the control B always give me a blank box that I can type into?
Thanks (and I just donated $50 for this wonderful program and the help provided)
I have a problem entering text into a note on the label track sometimes. The audio is selected too and I can’t enter text into the note. A right click gives me the “edit label” and I can enter it that way, but why doesn’t the control B always give me a blank box that I can type into?
Do you think it would help if you were to start a new post with this issue?
