I’ve recently started using Audacity to work on some projects where I do a lot of splitting / moving / copying of clips. I will frequently find that after saving and re-opening the project, clips will be missing. I can try re-copying them into place, but they are still missing after a save/reload.
I don’t know how the files get into this state, but once they are, they just seem broken, unable to save any new edits. At no time do I get any error messages. Saving into a new project doesn’t help - it will also be broken in the same way. I’m using latest (3.7.4) but I saw it with the previous version too.
Thanks for the tip. I wonder if I can have 2 versions installed at the same time? I like the STEM separation in 3.7 (not sure when it was introduced), but I suspect everything else I do is pretty straight forward, so the older version might but fine for that.
Obviously even better if the current releases didn’t have the issue!
You can totally do that on a Mac, however… Audacity keeps Settings, Mods, Adjustments, and Customizations in a separate place on the computer. This is so you can do a program update without having to reapply all your changes. I’d feel safe saying that the settings are different between 3.x.x and a 4.x.x.
I know one. 4.x.x will allow you to use the audio.com web-connected storage. In 3.x.x, you are strongly urged to do all your work on the local drive.
Are you doing all your work on the local drive? It’s a pretty terrible idea to do editing on external drives, the more external, the worse. Do Not do live editing on an internet drive.
