Menu flashing, will not save modified project

[Gale_Andrews]

@wolfey

A modified file will not appear as unsaved, even when newly created, or after saving once and being immediately modified.

I can save a project once, but not more than once without doing a ‘Save project as’ and renaming it - the normal Save option is disabled.

If I attempt to ‘Save as’ without renaming the project, the menu bar flashes rapidly a few times, the saving progress bar does not appear, and no changes are saved.

If I close a modified project, I am not warned to save changes, the file closes, and all changes are lost.

Some users would kill to turn off “Save changes”, but Audacity supplied by us should not do any of those things.

I suggest you quit the Audacity version you have now, trash it, and download 2.1.0 from Audacity ® | Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.. Install Audacity properly according to Installation: Do NOT run Audacity from the DMG!!!!

Before using 2.1.0, open Finder, Go > Go to Folder and type:

~/Library/Application Support/audacity/

Delete audacity.cfg in that folder than launch 2.1.0.

Note that if you are on Yosemite, the Audacity menu bar does flash very violently when saving, opening, exporting or importing and we have that tracked as a bug.

Note also that not all actions in a project make the project “dirty” thereby ungreying File > Save Project. For example selecting audio does not alter the project state.


Gale