Driving me nuts! Zooming in causes crash.

[_j33_]

I love audacity. Love it. Most of the time. Right now I hate its guts because I was on the finishing touches of my song and BAM! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

Now the issue here is not data loss, it's the thing audacity does when you have too many tracks. It starts to muck you around cause it gets confused. So I haven't lost any data, I'm just unable to make critical changes on the parts of the tracks that I need to. Basically, I need to align a drum track with another one. The two tracks are there in the project file, but one isn't lined up with the other.

So I attempt to zoom in on the aligned track, just so I can pull the other over using the aptly named 'time shift tool', and CRASH. I try again. CRASH. I try deleting some tracks (not that I've got any to delete - it was just to see if it was the problem)... CRASH. I try zooming in on another part of another track. It DOESN'T crash.

Then, I delete some tracks, make some random changes to the song, try and zoom in on the part I need to look at... and it still crashes on me. It's driving me nuts I tell you, all I needed to do was align this drum track and the song would be complete. But I can't zoom in enough to line it up properly, from the magnification of the view I'm currently in I can only move the unaligned track too much to the left or right.

Help me, please! I beg you!

- Cheers

[_j33_]

Sorry guys, solved the problem. I didn't think to zoom in somewhere else and then slide across.

[kozikowski]

<<<it's the thing audacity does when you have too many tracks.>>>

...for the size and speed of the machine. Each track has to be managed in real time and slow machines can't do that. Close all other applications, error check and defragment the hard drive. Always maintain at least 15% to 20% free drive space during the production.

You never once said the magic words that you personally recorded all the tracks with your drumsticks and guitar. Did you?

Koz