Hello, the new Audacity 3.1.3 crashes immediately when launching macros (I have used a macro to export to FLAC and the default macro do export to mp3). OS is Windows 7
I have tried with both versions, portable and installed.
With the old version 2.3.3 it didn’t crash. The first part of the report is here below. I attach the complete file to the post. I hope you can see something:
Operating system Windows NT
6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
CPU amd64
family 16 model 5 stepping 3
4 CPUs
GPU UNKNOWN
Crash reason EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ
Crash address 0xffffffffffffffe0
Process uptime 173 seconds
I have installed Audacity 3.1.3 on a Win10 installation and it crashes in the same way when launching macros. Here the first part of the report:
In attachment there is the complete file. Why does it happen?
Operating system: Windows NT
10.0.19044
CPU: amd64
family 16 model 5 stepping 3
4 CPUs
GPU: UNKNOWN
Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ
Crash address: 0xffffffffffffffe0
Process uptime: 77 seconds
Hi, I got it… It has nothing to do with the operative system. It works fine also on Win7.
The problem is only that the exporting path for macros, which you can specify in menu Edit > Preferences > Directories
must be a folder and can’t be directly the root of a partition, example F:\ it crashes!
With path: F:\macro it works and it creates automatically a subfolder named “macro-output”
Anyway it should be fixed. It should work with any valid path. Furthermore, it should not force to use predefined subfolders.
Maybe it affects also other paths in the settings Preferences > Directories
I was right about that - I tested with a small USB clip drive formatted as exFAT
Open, Close, Import and Export directories worked as the top-level location without a folder
Even the temporary directory could be set to the exFAT USB stick and it works -but I REALLY wouldn’t recommend that IRL.
However it’s not an entirely silly use case as my Windows PC has a 256GB SSD C: drive and on onboard spinning metal 1TB d:drive - so one might set the temporary directory to be on the D: drive - and note that is a directory “Session Data” on the D: drive and just a set of temporary files.
Hi, thank you very much for the support!
For the exports I have a partition dedicated on a separated HD, then I move the files quickly to their destinations, so for me it was normal to use the root path of the partition.