I got it all working. sounding good too. I did as you said, (big sound meter). It was good (except for her little dog, who we were stuck with. luckily he was not a yapper, but did hit the stand a few times). all and all, not too bad of an effort. But then major problems.
I save it at the end, but when I got home, I was going to make a back up file, I couldn’t fine it!!!
I started a new thread due to the new subject on the mac forum. https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/lost-long-session/29549/1
please help