I’ve been using Audacity several times a week since June 2024, and on bigger projects since the first of the year.
Yesterday all of the effects suddenly became much, much slower - and look to be getting worse.
I’m editing interviews of about an hour, either one or two tracks, and frequently adjust the volume a few seconds at a time. It usually takes well less than a second (looks instant), but yesterday it started taking several seconds, and now it can take about ten seconds to amplify a few seconds of data. (I used my phone clock to check.)
The only forum topic I could find on this was from 2014 at Sudden slowdown
I’ve using Audacity 3.7.1 in Windows 10 on a Lenovo Legion 5 with 16GB RAM. The SSD has 130 GB free. The processor is Intel(R) Core™ i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz.
I restarted Audacity several times and restarted the laptop after a full shutdown.
I’ve shut down all other programs except one chrome window to check this forum and my associated email.
Following that article, I checked my SessionData file for Audacity (in C:Users//AppData/Local/audacity and found it empty. I don’t see any other temp file for Audacity and that’s the location that a search provided.
I’m at a loss, and have over twenty hours of editing to complete by Friday evening - that’s with the effects taking very little time as usual.
Can anyone tell me what to do or something that I’m missing?
I’m not super tech savvy btw, though I can usually follow directions if I can ask questions to clarify.
Please help! This project is very important to me, and having logged in hundreds of hours using Audacity since June, it’s kind of a system shock.
Thank you!
Richard