Audacity Forum

ARGH!!!

Earlier this week, I had "Exported as MP3" various songs from the band practices I had been recording, directly to my networked terabyte RAID server.

Apparantly, Audacity chooses as its "default" save directory, the last directory you saved or exported to.

Last night, I got together with a different group of musicians, and was trying to record what we were doing.

Thinking I was being "safe", each set I was recording, I opened a new project, and saved it prior to recording anything. I wish I hadn't. I didn't realize I wasn't saving the project to the local harddrive, but to my network drive where I had exported the mp3 earlier in the week.

My guess is that once a project is saved, Audacity saves the audio files directly to the data folder rather than it's temp directory.

I thought it was taking a long time to "save" the projects afterward.

Listening to these songs this morning, there are skips and jumps all over the place -- I imagine due to the slow file write time across my network.

I don't suppose there's anyway to set a "default" save directory.

My guess is that once a project is saved, Audacity saves the audio files directly to the data folder rather than it's temp directory.

I believe that's true.

I don't suppose there's anyway to set a "default" save directory.

I also believe you can't do that.

I think I'm right in saying that you can move the project file and associated data folder anywhere, as long as the latter sits below the project file. If the problem is in playback then moving a project off the network and back to the local drive will fix it. Of course, if the glitches were introduced at the recording stage then they will still be present in the relocated project.