Audacity will not let me click Preferences without crashing.

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AKRedden
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Audacity will not let me click Preferences without crashing.

Post by AKRedden » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:54 am

I'm trying to get Audacity 1.3.9 to look for some VSTs that I put into the plug-in folder but when I go to click "preferences"
and go through the process I read about on here, it just crashes.
Anyone else have this problem or does anyone know how to fix this?

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Re: Audacity will not let me click Preferences without crash

Post by billw58 » Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:55 am

Please be more specific. What computer? what OS? What VST effects are you trying to add? How many at once?

Is this what you're trying to do?
1) Edit > Preferences go to Effects tab, check "Rescan for VST effects"
2) Exit Audacity
3) Start Audacity

At this point, what exactly happens? What error message to you get, exactly?

This has been reported before and the developers are working on it. Your report could help track this down.

-- Bill

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Re: Audacity will not let me click Preferences without crash

Post by steve » Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:25 am

If you are on Vista, make sure that you have a recording device enabled on your computer: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ng_devices
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