I’ve seen several posts about pasting from one project to another causing audacity to go non responsive - but none of those apply since I am simply copying from one spot in the file into another (specifically, copying a second of room noise and then pasting it in to extend the silence).
This process was working absolutely fine for the first 90% of the project, but then suddenly it started to hang, and audacity would go unrepsonsive. I figured a reboot would do the trick, but no dice. I just get a pop-up with “Paste Clip (not repsonding)” and it just hangs until I shut it down.
Windows 10, Audacity 3.7.7
UPDATE: I uninstalled Audacity and tried an earlier version (3.7.2) and am encountering the same issue. The program is utterly unusable and i don’t understand why - I’ve been using this workflow the entire time and it is only in the last two days that it has become a problem.
I’m saving to a local drive, which appears to be working fine with enough space, but I’ll keep an eye on it just in case that is the issue.
As a hacky fix I’ve saved the file as a FLAC, then saved that as a project file under a different name - so far no issues. But I’d love to hear if anyone else has experienced this because I still want to know why it happened.
I recently learned that saving a project to a FLAC file will reduce it from 32-bits to 24-bits. Not exactly like saving to an MP3 file, but nevertheless a reduction in fidelity. Saving the project to a W64 file will keep the 32-bit range and allow saving more than 4GB of data.