Audacity 1.3.14-beta deleting more than selected

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Audacity 1.3.14-beta deleting more than selected

Post by michael.weiland » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:00 pm

I am selecting about two seconds of audio on my track and then I hit my delete key. Audacity is deleting more than 5 seconds of audio, rather than my selection. Any idea why this is happening?

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Re: Audacity 1.3.14-beta deleting more than selected

Post by kozikowski » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:02 pm

Do you have "Snap To" selected on the lower edge?
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Re: Audacity 1.3.14-beta deleting more than selected

Post by michael.weiland » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:23 pm

No. Snap To is not selected.

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Re: Audacity 1.3.14-beta deleting more than selected

Post by michael.weiland » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:02 pm

OK...I figured this out, but still scratching my head. I was accessing a file from an external drive. As soon as I move them over to my desktop, it worked just fine.

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Re: Audacity 1.3.14-beta deleting more than selected

Post by waxcylinder » Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:01 am

This page from the manual should give you some insight: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects

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