Audacity unresponsive except for keyboard commands

[madvillain]

Hello,

I have two projects of Audacity open. I recorded one track inside each project. Somehow, both Audacity windows have become unclickable, only making a sound as if there is some dialog box open or something that is preventing me from clicking any of the toolbar or any part of the program whatsoever. I can still push spacebar to play or pause the files and other keyboard functions. However, "Ctrl+s" won't allow me to save the projects, both of which I desperately need and do not want to lose.

The enter, ctrl+ commands, and esc do nothing. I can't exit the projects by clicking the "x" in the upper right hand corner to prompt a "Save" option.

I've tried cascading the windows but I cannot seem to find any open box preventing me from interacting with the projects.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

*edit: The sound that plays when I click anywhere and nothing happens is the "Default Beep" sound.

[kozikowski]

Audacity 1.2 will not allow you to open two projects at once. You can have two active windows in the same project, but not two different projects. I don't think you can do any better in Audacity 1.3, but it's worth a shot. You should probably be in 1.3.12 for everything anyway. If you're doing fancy editing, you're almost certainly going to run into stability problems in Audacity 1.2

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

[madvillain]

Audacity 1.2 will not allow you to open two projects at once. You can have two active windows in the same project, but not two different projects. I don't think you can do any better in Audacity 1.3, but it's worth a shot. You should probably be in 1.3.12 for everything anyway. If you're doing fancy editing, you're almost certainly going to run into stability problems in Audacity 1.2

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

Here is a screenshot of what I'm dealing with:



Any ideas on how I can solve my specific problem right now? The only way I can see right now to exit is to end the process via Task Manager and that would probably lose my files that I don't have saved yet.

[kozikowski]

If each project still plays, the desperation method is to record the show onto an external "something." If you have a recorder like a Zoom, a Marantz, or a nice Mac, you can just plug the headphone out into the line-in and go. You can do this with a large deskside Windows machine, too, but not with most laptop Windows machines.

Install Audacity 1.3.12 on each of these machines to make it a recorder.

Koz

[steve]

The uppermost project appears to contain just one silent track

[madvillain]

The uppermost project appears to contain just one silent track

Yeah its not though. I ended up doing what the other poster said and just re recorded it on my macbook. At least I didn't completely lose everything