Unable to Export Audio due a problem with one of the tracks

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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After mixing down several recording this is the first time this has happened and I’m stumped.

My project has 8 Mono tracks. Total length is about 2 hours. The general problem is whenever I export audio, regardless of file type, audacity will process the export for a few moments and just stop the process. (It doesn’t crash, just stops the export)

I attempted the instructions found here: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audacity-2-3-3-mp3-export-of-one-project-stops/56026/3

I found that if I muted on particular track that everything else exports properly.

Is there any way to fix this one track? I am unable to determine what is actually wrong with it.
If there is anything I can submit, like a file or log, let me know.

2

Lack of free memory may be stopping the export.

3

Which version of Audacity are you using?

4

I’m on version Audacity 2.4.1.

Regarding memory 10 of my 16BG of RAM is available when executing the export.
The export always fails about 2 seconds in.

5

I’m on version 2.4.1

I have 10GB of my total 16GB RAM free while executing the export.

6

I assume that you already have a backup copy of the project, and have safely exported the good tracks. If not, do that first.

  1. Open the project and “File menu > Save Project > Save Project As…” and give it a new name, for example “recovery-test”.
  2. Delete all tracks except for the bad track.
  3. Select all of the bad track
  4. Apply this code with the Nyquist Prompt 
;version 4
()
*track*

If the track looks OK after running that code, try exporting it as a WAV file.

What happens?

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So I made it to step 4. After pasting the code in to the Nyquist Prompt and I clicked OK.
A couple seconds into apply the code Audacity crashed.
I then reopened audacity. The Nyquist Prompt still had the code in there so I attempted to export as WAVE and and few seconds in the export stops. (Audacity doesn’t crash, it just stops exporting)

8

Another development. I started randomly chopping down the track length (in total over 2 hours) and I found that if I cut everything off at the 4 min mark everything exports normally. I also found that…

I can Split (Ctrl+I) normally prior to the 4min19sec mark.
If I Split on the 4min20sec or 4min21sec mark it deletes the entire track after that point.
If I try to Split anywhere between 4min22sec ~ 4min28sec nothing happens. (I cannot insert a Split)
I can insert splits normally anywhere from the 4min29sec mark on…

So something funky is going on between 4min20sec ~ 4min28sec mark.

Since this portion of that track was mostly blank anyways, I cut it out completely.

After doing so, I was able to export the track! Yay!

Still have no idea what the issue was though…