Audacity Forum

asabove01 wrote:The question as a designer is: do you spend the extra 2 hours designing a secondary drain so that thousands of people who make the mistakes aren't spending thousands of dollars to repair water damage; or do you sit on your lazy ass and not care enough, rationalizing your laziness with the attitude of "well, it's their own fault.

I don't know - ask Steve Jobs or Phil Schiller.

kozikowski wrote:How goes the search?
Koz

Hi Koz, I've pretty much abandoned hope. I just the temp files were never made. I'm just satisfied to not have an ice-pick in my computer's brain.

Thanks,

a

<<<I just the temp files were never made.>>>

Oh, no. Nobody was expecting those to be there. I mean the search for another audio program. Remember? You said you were going to search for a more stable audio program for your work and I asked you to report back if you found anything.

Koz

Hi there-

I had a similar situation happen just now-

This is Audacity running on a Windows XP machine.

I fired up an iPod, and using a patch cord, plugged it into the microphone jack, and fired up Audacity, and turned on the 'record' option. Then, I hit the pause button. In this way, I could hear through the sound through the speakers. Kinda crude, but it worked.

I closed Audacity, and then discovered my hard drive's free space was about 5Gb less (this is on a 80Gb laptop, not trivial).

I can't find any files that are that size, or even near it (searched for files > 1 Gb). HOWEVER, when I used the program WinDirStat, I was able to find a file close to that size, but it had the tag of <Unknown> - no other information available.

I don't know of any tools to try and find/delete this file.

Thoughts?

"Huge file - can't see or delete, but created by Audacity"

I've put this on the Windows side, under the title above.