Joining clips erases track, and deleting portions creates new clip

Audacity 3 Help Forum
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While working on a project, suddenly the join and split clips started glitching. Whenever I delete a portion of clip, it splits into two different clips. This never happened before. When I try to join both clips, the entire track disappears.

I’ve reset my preferences to default, uninstalled and reinstalled audacity, updated the software program, and nothing helps. When I open a new project and try to split/join clips, it works normally. However even when I copy/paste portions of my project into a new one, the glitch follows and I can’t delete portions without splitting or join clips without losing the track.

I also can’t move clips into different tracks, and pasting a clip only generates a new track. This was not a problem before.

Help!

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There are some other threads on this. It’s been suggested that we go back to the previous version.

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Thanks for your response. I reverted back to some older versions as well, but the problem persisted or I wasn’t able to open my project because it was created in a newer version.

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Thanks for mentioning this!!

You’re editing audiobooks?