I think y'all are talking about different things.
Waxy, Steve et. al. are talking about working on the show while it's loading. I've done that myself. I think davexnet wants to go off and check email while it's loading and Windows focus is getting stuck. That is annoying. Audacity will prevent a computer from shutting down with that stupid "Save Changes" dialog.
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Re: focus
and that's the thing to which I said "I don't know why you can't switch to other applications while Audacity is copying in a file."kozikowski wrote: I think davexnet wants to go off and check email while it's loading and Windows focus is getting stuck.
which would tend to indicate a problem with the system rather than with Audacity (or Firefox) as this is not normal behaviour for either of these programs.davexnet wrote:I've seen this odd behavior in other products too. When I download something
from Firefox, the download window opens and it does the same thing. Steals the focus
and disrupts other stuff. Even though I can "see" other Windows,
I'm unable to close them or work on them until the download is finished.
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Re: focus
Are you an administrator on your machine or "lowly User?" Many times our corporate machines restrict users from doing any serious file management in an effort to prevent damage or break-ins. Koz
Re: focus
I'm working on a really old install of XP . Late tonight, I uninstalled and reinstalled my chipset drivers.
(It's a five year old Nvidia Nforce board with AMD processor). It's not 100% clean, the uninstall
of one of the components (SATA IDE driver) doesn't work through add/remove programs,
it's not even listed in the Nvidia uninstall program. My point is, although the drivers,
as shown by the device manager are installed and working, there are gremlins somewhere.
(one of these days I'm going to find out how to reset this stuff and fix it properly)
The new drivers are installed and the system seems fine. After I retried Audacity,
I got the new behavior. There is no small import window now, the wavform builds a small
amount at a time, and the main window can be minimized. Not sure why it started working,
(something to do with the drivers? Seems a long shot)
I imported a 1 hour 33 minute file (just over 1 GB) in about 25 seconds.
This is much more acceptable. Even the Firefox download problems seems resolved -
perhaps it was a system problem after all - albeit a most obscure one.
Thanks for your help Steve, I'll post back if anything else develops.
Dave
EDIT - the other thing that occurred to me since this was a different WAV file, perhaps There was
an issue with the first WAV I tried and Audacity did not recognize it as uncompressed?
Unfortunately I no longer have the original file to retest.
(It's a five year old Nvidia Nforce board with AMD processor). It's not 100% clean, the uninstall
of one of the components (SATA IDE driver) doesn't work through add/remove programs,
it's not even listed in the Nvidia uninstall program. My point is, although the drivers,
as shown by the device manager are installed and working, there are gremlins somewhere.
(one of these days I'm going to find out how to reset this stuff and fix it properly)
The new drivers are installed and the system seems fine. After I retried Audacity,
I got the new behavior. There is no small import window now, the wavform builds a small
amount at a time, and the main window can be minimized. Not sure why it started working,
(something to do with the drivers? Seems a long shot)
I imported a 1 hour 33 minute file (just over 1 GB) in about 25 seconds.
This is much more acceptable. Even the Firefox download problems seems resolved -
perhaps it was a system problem after all - albeit a most obscure one.
Thanks for your help Steve, I'll post back if anything else develops.
Dave
EDIT - the other thing that occurred to me since this was a different WAV file, perhaps There was
an issue with the first WAV I tried and Audacity did not recognize it as uncompressed?
Unfortunately I no longer have the original file to retest.