Whenever I go to startup Audacity, the window spawns in such a position that the title bar is behind the menu bar! What's going on and is there any way I can fix this?
BTW This is a school computer, so I can't do anything that requires root.
Inconvenient window positioning on startup
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billw58
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Re: Inconvenient window positioning on startup
Exactly which version of Audacity are you running? Choose Audacity > About Audacity and tell us the 3-part version number. This issue was resolved a couple of versions ago.
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Re: Inconvenient window positioning on startup
I am using Audacity 1.3.13-beta, Unicode version.
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billw58
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Re: Inconvenient window positioning on startup
Can you open the <home>/Library folder? If so, go to <home>/Library/Application Support/audacity. Trash the "audacity.cfg" file (this is the old "delete the preferences file when all else fails" trick). Then open Audacity. The window should open in the default location.
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Re: Inconvenient window positioning on startup
It worked! Thanks 
BTW I did this through Terminal.
BTW I did this through Terminal.
Re: Inconvenient window positioning on startup
DevEd wrote:Whenever I go to startup Audacity, the window spawns in such a position that the title bar is behind the menu bar!
billw58 wrote:Can you ... Trash the "audacity.cfg" file
I am the programmer who last worked on that code and I thought it was all working just fine. Since I have now seen more than one report of this in the last few weeks I know something is going astray. I sure would like to see a copy of the "audacity.cfg" file which was causing the problem.DevEd wrote:It worked!
I do have a repair for the problem which has been posted by the Audacity Team for testing but as the problem is so rare and transitory it has not been tested yet. PM me or post here and I will point you to the DMG.
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running Audacity personally customized 2.0.6 daily in a professional audio studio
occasionally using current Audacity alpha for testing and support situations
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running Audacity personally customized 2.0.6 daily in a professional audio studio
occasionally using current Audacity alpha for testing and support situations
64-bit Windows Pro 10
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Inconvenient window positioning on startup
Can you find out which version of OS X is being used:DevEd wrote:It worked! Thanks
http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme/e ... rsion.html ?
The other recent report we had of this was on OS X 10.7.2. It could be Apple changed something that affects this.
Gale
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Re: Inconvenient window positioning on startup
I am using Mac OS X 10.5.8.
BTW I knew how to do that already.
BTW I knew how to do that already.