Audacity Forum

Hello,

Fedora 12 amd_64 Audacity 1.3.11

After working with audacity sound only, for about 5 hrs or so I saved to file and audacity wrote over it's existing file and saved a blank zero byte file. I hadn't altered the sound track much so that had nothing to do with it.

Now I add a new letter to the file name and save it that way to make sure the file gets saved. It is a work around but it is better than losing everything.

Also just playing different small sections of the sound track it froze up the whole audacity application and I had to use the system monitor to shut it down. Here I did something with the mouse that I didn't normally do. I believe that I started a short section of the sound track in loop mode by holding the shift key down and then hit stop just as it was starting to play. I haven't got had it repeat this though as I don't want to lose any work. The sound track is about 2 1/2 hrs long.

Thank You,

There's a known issue that rapid play/stop activity (particularly with the transcription speed slider) can cause Audacity to loose its connection to PortAudio and freeze. It's usually triggered (though thankfully not very often) by manic clicking.

I don't know about the blank zero byte file business - there's no issue here. Is this repeatable on your machine? What are the exact steps to reproduce the problem?