After recently updating to 3.7.3 I’ve had trouble saving my projects. I’m now getting an error message of insufficient space despite having 200GB cloud space. I then tried signing up to the audio.com subscription plan for cloud storage (2TB) and that isn’t working either. Currently editing a long project and the audacity file is at 5.78GB memory wise. Any help would be great. Thank you!
You want to save to what disk? External disk formatted in FAT32? Then the file can not be larger than around 4 GB due to the disk format.
Do you get an error message, and what does it say?
I have no knowledge about audio.com - this must be answered by others.
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Doesn’t matter. Audacity doesn’t get along very well with non-internal drives. Audacity assumes any drive it can see can be used for any job no matter how delicate, critical, or difficult. Picture trying to produce a critically timed music overdubbing session on a cloud drive half-way across the country.
Not happening.
It gets worse. I think it’s still true that Audacity makes a high-quality copy of the whole show every time you do an edit. When you need to Edit > Undo because of a mistake for example, Audacity just plays back the show before this one.
Just think what does to a 6GB show.
So I think that’s where you are.
This is exactly why the audio.com drive was developed. Audacity “knows” what that is and can deal with it—assuming your home system is roomy and stable. Which yours apparently isn’t.
I’m not sure where to go from here. We can wait for another forum elf to comment.
I guess Desperation Method could be dip into your home drive and remove “stuff” to make room. Do you have a massive pile of old emails in there? Movies?
But we keep snapping back to a damaged show… We’re not starting from a clean slate.
Koz
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Yeah the one external drive I had wasn’t compatible because it’s formatted as FAT32.
audio.com does seem very new. I’ve tried synching, troubleshooting, but nothing.
I’ve pretty much been getting by by deleting everything I can and shifting other things on my mac to icloud, longer way to go about it but the only solution I have at the moment.
Thank you for talking me through why this is actually happening, I’ll keep that in mind to and avoid memory heavy projects in Audacity.
Describe the show.
Whipping the audiobook quality standards around a bit, your show size gives me a good quality reading just under 67 hours.
I do sometimes sit through long presentations, but I rarely make it past about an hour and a half. That doesn’t count actual long-form audiobooks.
Koz