I was editing a large file, and after executing a trim silence everything looked good. But after scrolling through the audio I found that some regions were just silence.
This happened because I ran out of disk space during the execution of the filter and no warning was issued, leaving the file with holes in it when blocks couldn’t be saved.
All effects behave the same. I just selected a small region and hit normalize or amplify, and the entire block went silent.
Audacity should show a message that there is not enough space for the operation to be performed and cancel the entire operation.
Which three-number Audacity are you using?
Koz
Yes this is a known problem. It is quite an invasive thing for us to fix, because throwing a message requires us to interact with a live audio thread (in the case of recording running out of disk space, which we must also fix).
We do have a strong intention to fix this for the release after next (2.1.4).
Gale
Thank you.
Sorry, I forgot to mention
windows 10 64bit
Audacity 2.1.0
2.1.4
Cool. That’s the one where we get rid of the split file system, right?
Koz
It will be so nice not to have to tell people missing an AUP file that their carefully prepared show is so much digital trash.
Koz
If you are referring to the mythological “unitary project format”, then no that’s not what Gale is saying, and unfortunately there are currently no signs of it making an appearance in Audacity 2.1.4. The subject of this forum topic is “warning when running out of disk space”, which all being well will be fixed in 2.1.4 - that’s the plan.