Audacity Forum

dear all

I recently bought a usb turntable and audacity 1.2.6 was included to record.
On pc it works, but on my old mac (a blue 350 mhz running osx.3.9) I can install it, but it refuses to open
I get the message "unespected faillure without harming osx...)
I downloaded both 1.2.6 and 1.2.5, but they both give the same faillure
How can I get it working?

thanks
ganske

You should be 1.2.6 and the one specifically for PowerPC, not the other one.

How much hard drive space do you have? Audio production can be a sudden shock to the system when you find out how much room audio files take up.

Oh, and how did you install it? I make up an "Audacity" folder, move it to the /Applications folder and then push all the downloaded and decompressed files over to it.

You did decompress the files, right? The single download is compressed with six or eight separate files inside.

Koz

Hi Koz,

thanks for replying,
To my knowledge, I did everything correctly (I even tried it on a G4 Ibook now , and there is works fine)

when I doubleclick the audacity icon, It starts dancing in my dock, but during startup is stops saying "program stopped", "systemsoftware and other programs are not damaged/influenced?

it's true I don't have a lot of disk space (but I normally work with a external HD to copy all my data to)
does it really need so much diskspace to start up?

cheers
ganske

Audacity does not need a huge amount of disk space for starting, but quickly uses a lot of space when you start to use it. This space must be available on a local drive as that is where Audacity stores its temporary data.

I hear that it is very important on Macs that you use the correct version for your machine.

I'm invoking the 10% solution (with apologies to Arthur). Any video or audio production machine needs to have at least 10% of the system drive free. Magic and strange things start to happen if you violate that rule. If you let your System drive go to 99% you may find that you can't take stuff off any more because of recursive file handling. That's pretty frightening because then you need to find really tiny files and delete them one at a time until you can reclaim the machine...probably by the end of the day...or the next.

<<<(a blue 350 mhz running osx.3.9)>>>

That's 10.3.9? How did you do that? I would kill to be able to load Panther on my 350 Blue and White. You know the System drive on that machine can never exceed 7GB, right?

Koz

Hi Koz,
my HD is only 6GB,

I started with 10.3.0 or 10.3.2 (I can't remember) and then I Installed it manually,
when doing this you can exclude a lot of things taking a lot of HD-space,
* like most languages (japanese, swedish,... you never need this )
* and all the other stuff you never need
this will reduce the space needed for installing 10.3.0 or 10.3.2
and then I just did a software-update, but beware, this takes quit a long time

This is perhaps the reason why audacity won't work!
perhaps I left out a tool too many!
but I don't give up, someday I shall find it, perhaps if I upgrade my imac with a larger HD and extra ram it will work

cheers ganske

Too advanced. I'm starting with a too-large blank hard drive and various startup CDs most of which are inappropriate. When I got it, I had to leave the System Drive behind because the valuable data belonged to somebody else. The up side is that I know the machine is in good condition and used to work perfectly.

I did manage to locate a G3 startup CD for OS 8.6 and put the operating system on a small (under 7G) partition, but the machine doesn't really like to start and has to be helped each time. The startup CD for my Panther license just laughs at me when I try to start that.

Tiger Startup CD isn't a CD. It's a DVD. You find out really early that the standard G3 Blue and White doesn't have a DVD player. I can fix that because I think there is hardware support for it.

I have a G3 iBook and it is, in fact, running Tiger, so I know it can be done...somehow.

Koz

Hi Koz,

yesterday, out of curiosity, I tried the beta version an guess what...... it works!
but as espected, editing or saving takes a lot of time

so now it's time to make my old but lovely Imac a bit quicker

cheers
ganske

After my anti-virus program, Trend Micro, blocked Audacity earlier today, I can't start it up anymore. I'm using the newest version (Beta 1.3) on Windows XP. I set my anti-virus to recognize Audacity as a legit program but it still will not start. I tried uninstalling an re-installing a few times too. Any ideas? Recommendations? I did try installing the older version of Audacity and was able to run that but I can't open the recordings I made earlier with 1.3. This is frustrating. This anti-virus program is too intrusive and has so many annoying auto features, kinda like Microsoft Word.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bendrix wrote:Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Some suggestions:

Make sure that the anti-virus program treats ".au" files and ".aup" files as "safe".

If that doesn't fix it, try replacing your anti-virus program with "Avast" or "AVG". They are both long standing high quality anti-virus products and are free for personal use. (Anti-Vir is also free for personal use, but I have found that it comes up with more false positives than the other two, and it has annoying pop-up advertising each time it updates (once per day). My personal preference is "Avast".