"Delete" misbehaves

[wthomas]

As with many of the individuals with questions, I am a bit new to Audacity, so apologies in advance if this question is stupid.

I am in the early stages of using Audacity to digitize a vinyl LP collection. The first 2 recordings worked well. However, on the third, when I try to delete (or cut) portions of the recording (for example, leading noise before the music begins or excess space between songs/album sides), neither the delete or cut functions do what they are supposed to do -- simply remove the selection and advance the part of the clip after the deletion to the point where the beginning of the deletion was originally positioned.

What I get instead, is a normal delete, but with an overwrite of silence that appears to be about the same length as the delete (plus about 1/2 second) from the point where the delete took place (or was supposed to take place). I closed the project in question, closed Audacity, rebooted my machine. The problem continued. I closed everything and reloaded an earlier project that had been saved just after recording. NO Problem with the delete!

I am mystified. Any ideas?

Many thanks,
Bill

PS I have gone through the manual "selection" and "edit menu" sections with no joy. Also the problem pesists when I try to delete with the delete key, a keyboard shortcut or the "delete" item on the Edit Menu Bar.

My set-up: Intel iMac running OSX 10.6.4, with Audacity 1.3.12 (beta -- Unicode). I recorded the music direct from a pre-amp equipped turntable using the same version of Audacity on my laptop (black MacBook also running OSX 10.6.4), saved the Audacity Project into my iMac's drop box over a home wireless network, and opened the project directly from the drop box using the copy of Audacity on my iMac. I am using the two computers so that I can record at the same time that I am processing an earlier recording, and because (i) the turntable is a long ways away from the iMac and (ii) it is vastly easier to edit the recording on a larger screen (the iMac), with a mouse rather than trackpad, and with computer that has a larger memory (and, thus, operates more quickly).

[kozikowski]

<<<I recorded the music direct from a pre-amp equipped turntable >>>

That doesn't get your turntable into the Mac. How do you do that? Analog connection into the Line-In or USB?

If you switch the MacBook to recording from the built-in microphone, can you edit that recording OK?

Koz

[billw58]

My guess is that the project file has somehow become corrupted. The fact the only one project misbehaves points to this. Open the problem project and a new project. Copy and paste the track from the problem project into the new project. Save the new project with a different name. Now try your edits. Does it work?

-- Bill