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Return Audacity to First Birthday
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:35 am
by kozikowski
In Mac land, you can return Audacity to Fresh Install, First Birthday by dragging a specific setup file to the garbage. I'm assuming you can't do that in Windows because the setup information is burned into The Dreaded Windows Registry. Stop me if I say anything wrong.
Koz
Re: Return Audacity to First Birthday
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:19 am
by waxcylinder
Correct in 1.2 - yes the registry is used (and IIRC Gale Andrews once posted on the forum a utility that would do the registry clean for you - can't remember the thread though)
But in 1.3.x and 1.4 (and I know you don't use 1.3 Koz) the developers have sensibly changed and created a similar preferences file for windows users.
But wouldn't an Audacity command "Restore Factory Defaults" be a very useful function?
WC
Re: Return Audacity to First Birthday
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:35 pm
by kozikowski
<<<"Restore Factory Defaults" >>>
That would take a good deal of the fun out of it. It would have to be a separate program, of course. The reason you're resetting the whole world is you think there is something wrong. If the broken program has the reset utilities on it.......
I had a user that trashed his preference file, correctly, but took Audacity with it. Now there was a damaged install.
There are a number of interesting recursive engineering problems like that. Make sure the emergency electric torch in your car runs off the car battery....
Koz