When zoomed in any edit ..ie..cut, paste zooms back out

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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I am on Audacity 2.4.2 and have an iMac with mackOS 10.12.6 Sierra

When i’m zoomed in on a track waveform and I do a cut, paste or region divide…etc…the views would always zoom back out.

Is this normal or how can I go about stopping this?

Thanks
Ron

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I can’t reproduce that, or I misunderstand what you mean.
Please give exact step by step instructions to illustrate what you mean.

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I can’t reproduce that on my Macbook Pro with macOS 11.0.1 Bug Sur with 2.4.2 or the latest alpha test build i have for the upcoming 3.0.0

Nor can I reproduce it my W10 PC

WC

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Basically, when zoomed in say with a stereo track L&R. When I perform any edit…like cutting, region divide…etc…the view would zoom back way out.

It did not do it at first. But shortly after. Now it does it all the time.

If I re-install the software, it would be fine…but again after a few edits it would do it again.

Is there an option in the preferences that is enabled that does this?

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Not that I’m aware of.

You can zoom out so that the full project fits into the window with “Ctrl + F”.
There are several other zoom commands: Zooming Overview - Audacity Manual

The only automatic zoom that Audacity has, is when you import a file.

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region divide ?