What happened?

Audacity 3 Help Forum GNU/Linux
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I opened audacity and got the start up window. Why? I have not seen that window in ages. Then suddenly Ctl+J does not work to join clips as usual. What happened? It’s as if the program has been reinstalled. What happened to my shortcut for joining clips? i use this very often and now have to go to the dropdown menu in Edit.

I also see that the audio position counters have been reset to minutes rather than milliseconds. What has happened here? I’m afraid that everything is going to function differently or not function at all. Everything has been routine for 6 months now. What happened?

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I had to reset the shortcut in Preferences. I wonder if there is something wrong with my OS?

3

There was a problem with old versions of Audacity - there were so many keyboard shortcuts set by default that there were very few sensible key combinations left for user’s custom shortcuts.

In more recent versions of Audacity, the default set of shortcuts was reduced so that more key combinations would be available for custom shortcuts. The “full set” of shortcuts is still available as an option in Preferences.

(I generally use the “Full” set)

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The problem is that either Audacity or Linux reset the program. I don’t know which.

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Steve - I had to reset all of my preferences on Audacity. The program reset itself to default. I would have inquired about this on the Linux forum but none of my other programs have lost my preferences. That’s why I’m asking what’s up?

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Audacity’s preferences are saved in ~/.audacity-data/
Deleting the “.cfg” files from that folder (or the entire folder) will reset Audacity to defaults.

Audacity 2.4.2 has an option to reset preferences: “Tools menu > Rest Configuration”
This option resets most of Audacity’s settings back to defaults.

Those are the only two ways to reset Audacity preferences on Linux that I’m aware of.

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OK, but I didn’t do any of that. I shutdown, and when I restarted my computer, Audacity had reset itself.

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That’s a mystery.

I assume that you are logged into the computer with the same user account? Each user has their own Audacity settings.

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I was alarmed by this. I was wondering if I had a security issue with my OS? Weird. Computers do strange this sometimes, but is this my computer or OS? Why didn’t it affect my other programs? That’s why I think it could be a bug in Audacity? This was a couple of days ago, now, so I don’t remember what I had done before the reset.