"Click Removal" effect pop-ups cannot be suppressed (makes macros not work well)

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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We have to record some narrated voiceovers for some online lessons at school, but with equipment not being great, I have to clean up the audio.

So, I made a macro that would first run the click removal effect then normalize the track to make the voice come out a bit louder.

This works fine except that occasionally, I’ll have a file that the “click removal” responds with bringing up a pop-up that says that the effect doesn’t work on that file and then can click okay. This stops the macro entirely; the rest of the steps never happen.

I worked around it by having a second macro that only does the normalizing step, but it would be preferable if it were possible to get that pop-up to be suppressed and allow the rest of the macro to continue.

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And if unclear, this is on audacity 2.4.1 on windows 10.

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It’s not possible to suppress that warning, but you can probably trick the effect into not showing the warning by adding a second track containing a short audio clip that has an easily detected click. “Select All” then apply the effect. If you’re running the Macro on a batch of files, you will obviously need to delete the second track prior to exporting.