Audacity Forum

This scared me for a moment, but it turned out to simply be what I believe is a bug in Audacity 3.1.11 Unicode.

I'm running Win 7 64-bit. I have a share on a Win 2008 Server 64-bit where I store music.

I was massaging an MP3 located on the Win 7 box, had it just the way I wanted it and attempted to export as MP3 to the server share. The dialog box came up as normal. The share has several folders, it also has quite a long list of files at the root of the share.

I clicked on the icon to create a new folder and all hell broke loose. The files at the root of the share started flickering as though they were being moved or deleted, and then they were gone!

For a moment I thought it had deleted them or moved them, but it turned out OK; they were still there. The new folder was created (as New Folder), though it never showed up in the dialog.

Another odd behavior is Libraries inside the export dialog. If I navigate to Libraries, all my libs show up in the right-hand panel - until I try clicking on one of them at which point they all disappear except for the documents library.

Small problems; I can work around both; just thought the team should know about it.

Thanks for creating an amazing recording program!!

JP

I'm guessing that what you are seeing is the delay in the information travelling back and forth to the server.

You're seeing the information in the dialog box being refreshed (i.e. erased and re-drawn) as updated information comes back from the server. What usually happen in a fraction of a second on a local hard disk (too quickly to see on screen) is taking several seconds on the server.

I would advise against using the server as the location where you import and export files to Audacity.
By all means, use the server to store your music, but I would use the local hard drive as the location to import and export files, and then copy from there to the server.

Maybe it's just my age, and the memory of the days when we often had to make several attempts to transfer files across any kind of transmission system, but I feel much more secure when the disk is only at the other end of six inches of cable!

If it is a bug in Audacity, you should be able to produce the same results with the local hard disk, as with the server. Can you?

PO'L