entire middle of saved/exported audio is blank???

[foobar]

I'm having an extremely hard time using Audacity for anything, due to the bug illustrated by this screenshot. It happens almost but not quite every time that I save or export a file.

result of saving to AUP or exporting to other format

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[kozikowski]

You should be careful with that phrase. Bugs are bad behavior experienced by thousands of people at the same time. You probably have trouble understanding how Audacity works.

Audacity will Export a sound file of your show and you can choose what type of file and many different characteristics. However, Audacity will not Save a sound file. Audacity only saves Projects.

Projects are collections of files especially important to know if you use other sound files, music for example, in your show. If you move or change any of the sound files you used in your show before you Export a finished show file, some portion of your show will drop dead.

Audacity does not pull sound files into itself for editing unless you changed it in Preferences.

A classic cause of missing audio is somebody who decided to "clean up" or "organize" all those sound files before Exporting a show file. You can't changes names, folders, locations, or anything else when you use separate sound files in your show.

Koz

[kozikowski]

Another slightly less common cause of this is pulling an interview from a portable or external drive or a thumb drive and then disconnecting the drive before you Export your show.

Poof, no more interview.

You can cause Audacity to pull sound files into itself for editing in Preferences and this problem should vanish.

Audacity > Preferences > Import/Export > Copy all sound files...Safer.

Koz