Audacity Forum

allencmcbride wrote:

That does not affect your current Audacity installation at all, except that if you change a preference in 1.3.8 alpha that will also be reflected in 1.3.7.

Does this only apply to Windows? Because other sources say you can't have two different installations of 1.3.x installed at the same time. --Allen

If you extract new files from a zip into a current installation of Audacity 1.3 Beta and overwrite the old ones, Windows won't get upset or know anything about it. You do the same in effect (though more "officially") when you upgrade from one Beta version to another by installing the later Beta over the earlier.

Yes Windows "Add/Remove Programs" will likely get tangled if you try and install say 1.3.6 in one location and 1.3.7 in another (though the uninstaller in the installation folders will cope OK). The registry is not used for Preference settings in 1.3, so all this is harmless. Some users store a number of different Beta versions of audacity.exe in their Audacity installation folder (all the exes named differently of course), then they can launch whichever one they want from the same folder.


Gale

Thanks. I wish there were a simple set of rules to say when you can and can't have two given versions of Audacity installed at once, but I'm coming to accept there aren't. --Allen

I just installed 1.3.8 - I now have 3 versions of Audacity, the stable version and two betas. Things seem to be OK as long as I don't try to run more than one version at a time! The alpha version took a long time to find my .aup files and isn't displaying the full path in the Recent files menu, but otherwise it seems to be working.

If you expect us to fix it easily, we would reeeeely rather you only had two, maximum. 1.2 and 1.3.

<<<The alpha version took a long time to find my .aup files and isn't displaying the full path in the Recent files menu, but otherwise it seems to be working.>>>

It works perfectly except that it doesn't.

Koz

hedera wrote:I just installed 1.3.8 - I now have 3 versions of Audacity, the stable version and two betas. Things seem to be OK as long as I don't try to run more than one version at a time!

Well we only said you could install more than one version, not run more than one

You can run multiple instances of Audacity, but we certainly don't recommend it.

hedera wrote:The alpha version took a long time to find my .aup files and isn't displaying the full path in the Recent files menu, but otherwise it seems to be working.

If the "finding" problem persists, can you explain a bit more - do you mean it takes a long time to display the files in the File > Open dialogue?

The Recent Files menu has been "improved" recently so it should now be listing files properly, including those dragged in, which it did not before. You're right that we've lost the previous ability to show the full path, I'll see if we can reinstate that.


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:The Recent Files menu has been "improved" recently so it should now be listing files properly, including those dragged in, which it did not before. You're right that we've lost the previous ability to show the full path, I'll see if we can reinstate that.

In fact, it seems this is a weakness we had all along in that the path is lost if files are added to the list. But the path should come back if you restart Audacity. That said, I saw no paths at all when I first ran 1.3.8 after the change - they came back after running 1.3.7, then running 1.3.8. We would have to write a new class of our own for file history to fix this, meantime it's noted as a residual issue on our checklist.

Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:The Recent Files menu has been "improved" recently so it should now be listing files properly, including those dragged in, which it did not before. You're right that we've lost the previous ability to show the full path... In fact, it seems this is a weakness we had all along in that the path is lost if files are added to the list. But the path should come back if you restart Audacity... We would have to write a new class of our own for file history to fix this...

The new file history class has now been implemented in our development code and will appear in 1.3.8, so fixing the "dropped paths" problem.


Gale