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I can't install audacity 1.3 (any version) on my macbook (intel - 32bit - OSX 10.5).
It makes VST scanning than..crash! I've tried to moove away vst from vst's folder in the library but without results!
somebody has ideas to help me?
Thanks!

You can get into trouble when an older install of Audacity hangs and leaves trash around to poison a new install.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Preferences

Koz

You can disable VST effects in Audacity altogether by following the steps given in Koz's link, but when you get to the step:

2) Open audacity.cfg in a text editor such as Notepad and remove all the content except the line NewPrefsInitialized=1

put (only) the following lines into the audacity.cfg file:
(here's a direct link to the part about resetting preferences http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audac ... defaults_2 )

thanks for your precious suggestions, but it still doesn't work!

Does the "VST scanning" still occur?

Did you exit Audacity before you edited audacity.cfg?


Gale

no more vst scanning, just a crash.
i've also tried to move vst in another place but it doesn't solve anything.
but i've got a "preferences.cfg", not "audavity.cfg"..i've tried to change it but still no solutions!

As far as I'm aware Audacity 1.3.x does not have a "preferences.cfg" file.

Make sure you are using 1.3.13 (the "13" is important because it has a fix for the problem you may be experiencing):
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... 1.3.13.dmg

Male sure you are looking in <your home folder>/Library/Application Support/audacity for audacity.cfg. But it will not exist if you have never closed Audacity without a crash. In that case extract the attached audacity.cfg to <your home folder>/Library/Application Support/audacity. That .cfg also disables AudioUnits which can be a problem on Mac. Here is the content of the attached audacity.cfg:

Gale

I tried to built by my self a file like this without success. but this way it works!wonderfull! thanks so much