Audacity Forum

Hi Folks,
I am running Mac OSX 10.4.10 on a 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 with 1GB DDR SDRAM.

I seem to have successfully downloaded Audacity 1.2.6 (the desktop has an Audacity 1.2.6 11.4 MB drive icon and also an icon showing "audacity-macosx-ppc-1.2.6.dmg".
When I double-click the dmg icon, instead of having the package move into "Applications" (as I expected to happen), I get a Finder window with the six items: Audacity.app; Languages Folder; License.txt; Readme.txt; nyquist folder; and plugins folder.

What further should I do to complete the installation process - before I get rid of the .dmg icon and unmount the 11.4 MB drive icon?
Thanks and Regards

Half way home.

Create a fresh folder on the desktop called Audacity. Pull that folder over to your /Applications folder in the Systems Drive. Then pull all the files and folders from the temporarily mounted desktop drive over to this new folder.

Done. Launch Audacity by double clicking the application file, or drag the application file over to your dock which will create a dock shortcut.

I personally keep and back up all my .dmg files along with any installation notes in case my System Drive goes south. I don't have to go to a million web sites looking for all my applications again. I put copies of all my keys and purchase notes in there, too.

Koz

Hi Koz - Thanks for that! I am now .75 way home...
The program starts when I click on the Audacity.app file

But... when I click on "Help" (to get some detailed guidance on how it functions) I get a window headed: "Where is Audacity - 1.2 - help.htb ?"

And that directory-style window has a button called "Enable" with the text: "HTML Help Books (*.htb)" in it. It offers me the opportunity to show it which directory, folder and file contains the help but I cannot find that myself, either!

So... where is the help and how do I get it to function?

Thanks again for your assistance!

[urlhttp://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=423[/url]

Koz

kozikowski wrote:[urlhttp://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=423[/url]

Koz

I get "page not found." And I can't find the audacity-1.2-help.htb file in any other Mac release either - including the 1.3.3 beta. Any idea where I can get a copy?

Try this link, (I think koz had a minor typo).

You can get the help files from here:
http://audacityteam.org/help/documentation

stevethefiddle wrote:Try this link, (I think koz had a minor typo).

You can get the help files from here:
http://audacityteam.org/help/documentation

Thanks. The link at topic 423, http://audacityteam.org/files/audacity- ... 6-test.dmg , gives "Page Not Found."

I'm still hoping to find the .htb file somewhere for Mac!

storyleader wrote:Thanks. The link at topic 423, m http://audacityteam.org/files/a ... 6-test.dmg m , gives "Page Not Found."

That's because the file is no longer there.

The file that was there previously was not a .htb file, it was a .dmg file
I managed to track down one of the files:
audacity-macosx-intel-1.2.6-test.dmg
no sign of:
audacity-macosx-ppc-1.2.6-test.dmg
(from the name of the files, I guess they were a bit "experimental".

The current manuals are available in various forms from here:
http://audacityteam.org/help/documentation

Other Mac downloads are here: http://audacityteam.org/files/

stevethefiddle wrote: The file that was there previously was not a .htb file, it was a .dmg file
I managed to track down one of the files:
audacity-macosx-intel-1.2.6-test.dmg

Hooray! The "...test.dmg" file you tracked down contains audacity-1.2-help.htb . That is what I was looking for.

Thank you!

Audacity 1.2.5 (stable) for MacOS intel still is missing the audacity-1.2-help.htb help file.

Audacity 1.2.6a (stable) for MacOS PPC has the help file with version 1.2.6.
http://audacityteam.org/latest/audacity ... 1.2.6a.dmg

Mount the dmg file and drag the audacity-1.2-help.htb file into the Audacity 1.2.5 folder.