Audacity 1.3. Beta will not save wav in XP

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Audacity 1.3. Beta will not save wav in XP

Post by meows » Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:06 pm

I tryed and tryed, 6 times,, rebooted, checked the temp files. I exported and it said it saved the file but the file was never there, It showed in Recent Documents and you can play it from there, but it was a shortcut to where the file was supposed to be saved to., I did not boot to DOS and check to see if the export wav was there, I just removed Audacity 1.3.x (Beta and installed the older version,.

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Re: Audacity 1.3. Beta will not save wav in XP

Post by kozikowski » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:14 pm

You can get file insanity if you put punctuation marks in your filename. No dates. Computers hate slash marks in filenames. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, underscore and dash are safe. I don't use spaces, either.

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Re: Audacity 1.3. Beta will not save wav in XP

Post by meows » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:24 am

No did not use spaces or any thing.. 1.wav 2.wav etc.. nothing saved.

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Re: Audacity 1.3. Beta will not save wav in XP

Post by Gale Andrews » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:45 pm

meows wrote:...file was never there, It showed in Recent Documents and you can play it from there, but it was a shortcut to where the file was supposed to be saved to.,
If the file plays from Recent Documents, it was exported. Right-click over the shortcut > Properties and look in the "Target" box to see where the file was exported to.



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