Audacity Forum

I try to record and a message pops up that there is no space on the disc? I do not know what disc. The cd I have is blank unused new.
when the recording is finished the recorded is in about 40 parts of and cannot be played. Thank you for any help you can give me

You computer internal hard drive maybe full. This is very dangerous and it could cause your computer not to start.

The computer has two kinds of memory. There is an electronic memory that does the day to day thinking bout how to run your computer and do tasks. If you run out of electronic memory (it's not very large) then the computer puts stuff on your internal hard drive. Hard drives can be very large, but they're not fast enough to run the computer directly like the electronic memory is.

It's easy on modern computers to silently fill up your hard drive and not know you're doing it. Some of the information that the computer needs to wake up when you turn it on lives on the hard drive, so filling one up so the computer can't find stuff is very dangerous.

Are there any documents, pictures, music, or other work you produced or bought that you can throw away? You can buy a little USB thumb drive and put some of your work on that instead of throwing it away. If you do throw stuff away, be sure and empty the recycle bin after so the computer really gets rid of the work.

Pictures and videos take up a lot of room and sound performances are a close second.

Right click on Start> Explore> My Computer> Right-Click Local Drive (usually C) > Properties.

Those numbers should tell you how large your hard drive is and how much room you have left. Probably not much. Production machines should maintain at least 10% free space on the hard drive. Sometimes the hard drive is called the Hard Disk. That gives you messages like, "Disk Is Full!"

Koz