Audacity Forum

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

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

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

Koz

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

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

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

juemon wrote: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

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