Plethora of Issues - Lost Old Save, Program Runs Slow, High CPU Usage

[fowlmarlee]

One thing I noticed was that every time I opened that project it would say it wasn’t saved correctly and gave me the option to “recover” the files, despite the fact I would always click “Save Project” before closing Audacity.

We’ve had a couple of similar reports, but we’re finding it very difficult to reproduce the problem.

After saving the project, do you shut down (“exit”) Audacity before shutting down the computer?

Yesterday I was making the finishing touches on my audio when Audacity suddenly began to run extremely slow. Any time I made an edit I would have to wait about 1-2 minutes for Audacity to complete the action as it would completely freeze and say “Not Responding” before eventually applying the change.

How big is the project?
Had you been working on the project for a long time continuously?
Does this relate to using “Undo”?

Are you using an English version of Windows?

Yep! Once I save the project I exit out of Audacity completely before shutting down my PC. It used to close fine but now when I close Audacity it’ll freeze for a good 10-30 seconds before closing.

• Original project length was 1hr and had no issue until a few weeks later. New project is 30mins- Audacity started to slow down once I hit 33mins or so.
• Original project no- I would work on it for maybe an hour or two every so often. For the new project I did work on it for around 2 hours before the program began to slow. Even after waiting a day and coming back to Audacity it’ll still run as slow as it did a few days ago.
• I’ve not used “Undo”
• And yes, I’m using an English version of Windows.

Thank you for trying to help me solve this problem!