Need help figuring out the pattern here.
My audacity seem to be crashing every 3rd or 4th time I use it.
It most crashes when I go to close the program after saving, sometimes crashing as it is compressing the files. Sometime just in closing without any sign of compressing.
Sometimes, like today, it crashed when making a click to select a segment. Autosave didn’t seem to work, and it instead gives me a corrupted file (sometimes).
I’ve gotten really good at using the recovery program.
I’ve tried keeping file sizes down, but it still seems to randomly crash with files smaller then 5,000,000 KB. No luck.
It’s not memory or disk. I’ve actively watched them.
It would be good to know which Audacity you’re using. Is it possible this started happening at the last Audacity update? Would it happen to be 3.7.x?
Since you’re on Windows you should clear your Audacity work, close Audacity, and do a Clean Windows Shutdown.
I can’t find a good simple how-to, but it’s basically Ctrl-Alt-Del and then hold the Shift key while the machine shuts down. There are ways to force Windows to do that every time, but I don’t think that’s needed.
When Windows does a Restart or Regular Shutdown, it can leave trash behind. Your computer may be fighting this trash. A Clean Shutdown will take longer which is why Microsoft doesn’t make you do it every time. But it is more thorough.
As a side issue, make sure Audacity is the only thing running while you’re doing production.
Audacity should be restricted to work on your local drive. No External Drives, Home Network, Internet, Cloud or any other non-internal drives. The sole exception is the audio.com cloud drives and then only if you’re using the 3.6.x Audacity versions or later.