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Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:07 am
by kozikowski
Intel Mac Mini
OS-X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
Audacity 1.3.13
No applications running. I removed Audacity from the applications doc, so the program has to come from /Applications. We're all in different directories.
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jimmy:~ koz$ pwd
/Users/koz
jimmy:~ koz$ ls -l
total 0
drwx------+ 17 koz staff 578 Sep 13 22:23 Desktop
drwx------+ 10 koz staff 340 Aug 28 21:14 Documents
drwx------+ 5 koz staff 170 Aug 28 19:23 Downloads
drwx------+ 35 koz staff 1190 Jun 23 23:09 Library
drwx------+ 3 koz staff 102 Mar 19 19:43 Movies
drwx------+ 4 koz staff 136 Mar 20 14:39 Music
drwx------+ 17 koz staff 578 Aug 28 19:10 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 koz staff 170 Mar 19 19:43 Public
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 koz staff 170 Mar 19 19:43 Sites
drwxr-xr-x 76 koz staff 2584 May 28 20:37 kozco
jimmy:~ koz$ Audacity Desktop/stereoNoise.wav
-bash: Audacity: command not found
jimmy:~ koz$ open -a Audacity Desktop/stereoNoise.wav
jimmy:~ koz$
The "open" command succeeds and Audacity opens with the "music" in it.
This might be interesting. This is what happens when I use fully qualified pathnames.
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jimmy:~ koz$ pwd
/Users/koz
jimmy:~ koz$ /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app Desktop/stereoNoise.wav
-bash: /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app: is a directory
jimmy:~ koz$
Koz
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:17 pm
by kozikowski
So Audacity.app isn't an executable. It's a special folder.
Koz
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:13 pm
by Todd Merrell
Hi Koz,
Took a little time away from this. Sorry for the delay. Just wanted to let you know that I'd already verified and repaired permissions on the disk, and I did it again, twice, with no change. I'll read your subsequent posts right now...
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:42 pm
by Todd Merrell
Koz and Gale,
My friend Patrick and I are about to have a crack at the "Why don't any applications open?" problem. It's because, and you hinted at it Koz, Audacity.app is actually a folder, not an executable, which is fine, because it contains a whole bunch of associated files. If you dig down deeply enough, inside /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/, lives Audacity and Audacity.sh, and apparently they have to be concatonated for the shell to launch the executable. I'll get back to you on this.
Interestingly, you folks have referred to this importing uncompressed file warning. I'd never seen it, so I went into Preferences and found it unchecked in the Warnings section, so I checked and ok'ed it, quit Audacity, tried opening the file with Audacity, and got no warning and no file imported. Same thing.
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 1:08 am
by Gale Andrews
Todd Merrell wrote:Audacity.app is actually a folder, not an executable, which is fine, because it contains a whole bunch of associated files. If you dig down deeply enough, inside /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/, lives Audacity and Audacity.sh, and apparently they have to be concatenated for the shell to launch the executable.
OK, but nonetheless <app name> on Ubuntu always raises the application if it's installed, so this is still a bit surprising. And from what everyone one has said this is a general problem on Mac (because of how apps are packaged)?
I've got an iso extracted from the 1.3.12 dmg. There is no Audacity.sh file, but does:
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/Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Desktop/stereoNoise.wav
launch Audacity (presumably with the file for Koz, if it works at all)?
Gale
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 3:03 am
by kozikowski
It does, and it launches the audio on the timeline. But:
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Last login: Tue Sep 13 22:24:29 on ttys000
jimmy:~ koz$ ls
Desktop Downloads Movies Pictures Sites
Documents Library Music Public kozco
jimmy:~ koz$ pwd
/Users/koz
jimmy:~ koz$ /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Desktop/stereoNoise.wav
Fri Sep 16 19:35:07 jimmy.local Audacity[1581] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window
Fri Sep 16 19:35:07 jimmy.local Audacity[1581] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Koz
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:39 pm
by Gale Andrews
kozikowski wrote:It does, and it launches the audio on the timeline. But:
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jimmy:~ koz$ /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Desktop/stereoNoise.wav
Fri Sep 16 19:35:07 jimmy.local Audacity[1581] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window
Fri Sep 16 19:35:07 jimmy.local Audacity[1581] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Thanks, Koz. Glad to see that works. The error seems the same that Todd was getting with Audacity and older browsers:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 98#p156290
Gale
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:45 pm
by Todd Merrell
Gale and Koz,
How exciting - we seem to have parity on this one. I tried opening the file as you'd mentioned, the file opened in Audacity for the first time (actually exhilarating!), and I got the same error that Koz did:
[email protected]:~% /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Desktop/piano2-CoolEdit.mp3
Sat Sep 17 19:14:12 Todd-Merrells-MacBook-Pro.local Audacity[5819] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window
Sat Sep 17 19:14:12 Todd-Merrells-MacBook-Pro.local Audacity[5819] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
I was wondering if my problem is related to pathnames, or maybe the way (my?) packages are set up on OS X (10.6.8). But what's weird is that Koz and I have exactly the same problem when we test in the above way, but when we try to open the file(s) with Audacity from the Finder (OS X's GUI), we get different results.
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:42 am
by kozikowski
Without digging back through all those threads, have you tried Repair Permissions in the Disk Utilities?
Koz
Re: Launching Audacity by opening a file doesn't import the
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:07 am
by kozikowski
Let's do permissions.
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jimmy:Desktop koz$
jimmy:Desktop koz$ pwd
/Users/koz/Desktop
jimmy:Desktop koz$ ls -al
total 38720
drwx------+ 20 koz staff 680 Sep 17 18:14 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 22 koz staff 748 Sep 12 22:25 ..
[email protected] 1 koz staff 24580 Sep 17 18:26 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 koz staff 0 Mar 19 19:43 .localized
drwxr-xr-x 19 koz staff 646 Jun 16 22:13 Accounts
[email protected] 1 koz staff 185 Sep 17 18:14 Audacity.txt
[email protected] 1 koz staff 15711518 Sep 13 21:48 BlueCatChorusVST.dmg
drwxr-xr-x 5 koz staff 170 Sep 6 20:00 Desktops
drwxr-xr-x 16 koz staff 544 Aug 14 21:02 FCCLicenses
[email protected] 1 koz staff 244 Sep 12 18:44 MacDevices.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 koz staff 1627634 Sep 8 23:38 SMPTE_WIPE_QT.mov
[email protected] 1 koz staff 32375 Sep 8 19:47 Screen shot 2011-09-08 at 7.46.57 PM.png
[email protected] 1 koz staff 278472 Sep 15 22:52 Screen shot 2011-09-15 at 10.52.39 PM.png
[email protected] 1 koz staff 17756 Sep 17 10:07 Screen shot 2011-09-17 at 10.06.59 AM.png
[email protected] 1 koz staff 2122 Sep 7 18:36 audacityTest.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 koz staff 8710 Sep 15 22:12 gong.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 koz staff 1210892 Mar 20 11:41 piano2.wav
drwxr-xr-x 15 koz staff 510 Sep 10 22:27 pix-clips
drwxr-xr-x 38 koz staff 1292 Sep 6 20:55 purchases
[email protected] 1 koz staff 882044 Sep 13 22:23 stereoNoise.wav
jimmy:Desktop koz$
..
..
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jimmy:Applications koz$
jimmy:Applications koz$ pwd
/Applications
jimmy:Applications koz$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 22 22:51 Address Book.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 8 22:16 App Store.app
[email protected] 11 koz admin 374 Aug 16 21:07 Audacity
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 11 2009 Automator.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 5 2009 Calculator.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 May 18 2009 Chess.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 14 2009 DVD Player.app
[email protected] 3 koz admin 102 Apr 28 2010 Fetch.app
[email protected] 4 koz admin 136 Jul 17 12:45 Firefox.app
drwxrwxr-x+ 31 root admin 1054 Apr 12 22:57 Utilities
drwxrwxr-x 5 root admin 170 Aug 3 08:17 iWork '09
jimmy:Applications koz$
..
..
..
..
At one time a million years ago, there was a scramble where the System was looking for 'Audacity' and the install created 'audacity' or it could have been reverse.
Koz