Lag issues and worse
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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cskippy2000
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Lag issues and worse
A couple days ago I downloaded the most recent version of audacity. My project file expanded from 1.9mb to 9.3gb, it has a different extension, and it has become INCREDIBLY slow. I highlighted about 3 seconds of my recording, and pressed delete TWENTY MINUTES AGO. And nothing has happened except to say the program is no longer responding. I'm EXTREMELY pissed. I have work to get done and apparently, you've made that very difficult for me. Can I go back to the earlier version? Can you enable me to do that? This one is not working for me, to put it nicely.
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kozikowski
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Re: Lag issues and worse
Sure.
https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html
The last legacy version was 2.4.2. 3.0.0 had teething problems. Run away.
3.0.2 is current.
Fair warning that 2.4.2 will not open an aup3 project. 3.0.2 should open both.
Koz
https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html
The last legacy version was 2.4.2. 3.0.0 had teething problems. Run away.
3.0.2 is current.
Fair warning that 2.4.2 will not open an aup3 project. 3.0.2 should open both.
Koz
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kozikowski
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Re: Lag issues and worse
It should be noted that the AUP3 file is the whole show. The AUP file in the earlier Audacity is a simple edit manager text file. The real sound is in the _DATA folder. I'm guessing your _DATA folder of the same name is 9GB.My project file expanded from 1.9mb to 9.3gb
Without knowing any more about your show, I'm guessing you outran your machine. How long is the show and how many tracks do you have? The process is not open-ended.
Koz
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kozikowski
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Re: Lag issues and worse
Do you let your Windows machine do automatic updates? That's not a good idea in the middle of a show. Make it notify you and then you can update at a good stopping point.
Koz
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Re: Lag issues and worse
1) I believe koz has provided you a link where you can find older versions of Audacity (fosshub)cskippy2000 wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 12:22 amA couple days ago I downloaded the most recent version of audacity. My project file expanded from 1.9mb to 9.3gb, it has a different extension, and it has become INCREDIBLY slow. I highlighted about 3 seconds of my recording, and pressed delete TWENTY MINUTES AGO. And nothing has happened except to say the program is no longer responding. I'm EXTREMELY pissed. I have work to get done and apparently, you've made that very difficult for me. Can I go back to the earlier version? Can you enable me to do that? This one is not working for me, to put it nicely.
2) So I challenge you, right-click on your orginal DATA folder? Was it around 9GB as koz suspects?
3) Yes, so the first time you make the smallest change to an .AUP file, Audacity is going to copy the whole enchilada over to the new .AUP3 format. If it has to copy 9GB, it is may take longer than TWENTY minutes.
Regardless of which version of Audacity you use, be sure to have a .WAV backup of your project.