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I just downloaded and am using a portable version of what I thought was Audacity 3. It looks and behaves very differently. Much improved. I just think it’s great to have the data file combined with the aup because now I can keep them in my regular folders. Before, I had to keep them separate from the other parts of my projects, because when I ran a tracklist, the tracklist program would list all of the data files, which made project review cumbersome. Now, that is solved.

I also like the “grabber” for shifting the track. Saves me a step. I haven’t been around in a while. What else is new?

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Announcements on the Audacity website:

https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/
https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-2-released/
https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-musescore-announcement/
https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-3-is-out-now/
https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-1-is-out-now/
https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-1-3-released/

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Thanks. That “grabber” is called the “clip handle.” Nifty. OK. So I’ll take a look at these pages as I go. Thanx again.

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Yes. I tend to refer to it as the “drag bar”, but the official name is “clip handle”.

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So I converted a couple of my old projects. I have thousands left to convert to aup3. Any shortcuts?

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I am not able to open aup3 on windows 8, but I’m ok on windows 10. Does this work on windows 7?

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It might do, but Windows 7 is no longer officially supported.

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I have access to windows 8 and 10. But I’m experiencing problems. I’m not sure if it’s the machine, but I don’t get sound. The playback meter registers sound, though.

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Are there any shortcuts to converting the old files to aup3? I have thousands. So far, I have to open and save each anew.

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No. You could experiment with AutoHotkey.

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Why not just leave them as “AUP + _data” until you need to use them?

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Well, that makes sense. :mrgreen:

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Also, there’s a couple of glitches in the current method of converting from the old format to the new. Hopefully these glitches will be fixed in future versions of Audacity. Because of this, I would not recommend batch converting all your old projects - If you do, you should check that they all work correctly before deleting the originals.

I think these are at least most of the conversion issues affecting Audacity 3.1.3:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/2618
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1643
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/2382
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/2472 (fixed for the next release)

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Hi. I’m not considering deleting the old files because all of those .au files could be of use in an emergency. However, I would like to store them in a separate drive. I ran a tracklist program on one of my drives today, to review a printed list of the whole drive, and the list came out to be 7000 pages. Skimming thelist, I see page after page of .au files. I bet that 5000 of those 7000 pages are filled with .au files. I think I would like to convert the old files and remove them from this drive, so my tracklists are cleaner. I do have all of the old files stored on another drive in another city. The problem is batch conversion of what I am carrying.

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I glanced at those links. I don’t think there will be much of a problem if I just save the old projects.

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Wow! :astonished: It’s great to be able to change the name on the aup3 file without any problem. This new system is much more like saving any other kind of doc. Really nice.