Help and manual do not open by clicking in the help menu

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Audacity 1.3.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.

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Help and manual do not open by clicking in the help menu

Post by michelhenri » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:36 am

Having installed 1.3.12 or 1.3.8, help and manual do not open by clicking in the help menu. HELP file seems to be correctly present in the Audacity program file. Reinstalling or reboot without result.

Looking forward an explanation and fixing issue.

Thanks.

MK, Paris

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Re: Help and manual do not open by clicking in the help menu

Post by waxcylinder » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:58 am

That's odd, I'm on Windows XP-HE and Help > Manual fires up the manula in my webrowser ok.

However you can still access the manual directly from this link (I would suggest bookmarking the link): http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... =Main_Page

You will probably find the Wiki useful too (but note there is a lot of infomation common to both the manual and the Wik). See: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... _Home_Page

BTW don't bother with 1.3.8 - 1.3.12 contains bug fixes for bugs that were in the earlier versions - and 1.3.12 seems very stable in daily use.

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Re: Help and manual do not open by clicking in the help menu

Post by steve » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:38 pm

The .ZIP version does not contain the help file. This is deliberate and reduces the download file size.
For automatic installation of the help file you need to use the .EXE version.

The help file can also be installed manually: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... the_Manual
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