Cannot Select a Portion of a clip

[juemon]

I'm new to Audacity, but I have used various sound editing softwares such as Peak or SoundHack, etc.
I just installed Audacity and I cannot seem to do the basics:
I cannot select a portion of soundfile by clicking and dragging on the waveform.

The Multi-Tool Mode is selected, and clicking onto the Selection Tool does not switch from Multi_Mode tool. As a result, every time I click on the waveform, it automatically zooms in and I cannot select anything.

This is really frustrating. Could you please help?

Thanks,
Roy

[billw58]

I can't reproduce this with Audacity 1.2.6 and OSX 10.5.8 on a PPC machine.

Could you please verify which version of Audacity you are using, and tell us which Mac and OS you are using?

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

Apple > About This Mac > Version and Processor. Both, please.

Koz

[juemon]

Hi, I am running the Audacity 1.3.9 on OS 10.4.11 on Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz.

Thanks very much for your help in advance!
Roy

[kozikowski]

Sometimes we can cure schizophrenia like this by trashing the preferences and make Audacity start over. Do as many of these that apply...

Trash Mac Audacity Preferences
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... =10#p34670

Restart Audacity and it should ask you "English?" when it wakes up. If it doesn't, you missed one.

Koz

[juemon]

Hi,

Thanks for your advice. I trashed the preferences both in Preferences folder and Application support, and I was able to restart Audacity. Now I could select the portion of the file, but I cannot seem to switch tools from Selection tool to others. Every time I click on Timeshift or Multi, the selection stays on the Selection tool.

Thanks again for your help!
Roy

[billw58]

I cannot seem to switch tools from Selection tool to others. Every time I click on Timeshift or Multi, the selection stays on the Selection tool.

Is the F1 key stuck down on your keyboard?

-- Bill

[juemon]

No....F1 key is not stuck nor any other keys....
thanks,
R