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kozikowski wrote:

"Portable Settings" folder

I appear to have independent settings and preferences without such a folder.
Koz

I don't think so, unless some settings were in one version and not another.

kozikowski wrote:I'm going to ask you where is that written other than right here, right now?

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/pr ... e_Settings though it does not explicitly mention this lets you run Audacity on the same machine with different settings. I added a sentence about that in the development Manual.


Gale

I realized now that I might have posted this in the wrong place. Please feel free to move this post to the Windows forum. I believe that is where I should have reported this bug concerning the incorrect starting position when undoing a cut in 2.0.6.

Thank you.

mdubin

mdubin wrote:I realized now that I might have posted this in the wrong place. Please feel free to move this post to the Windows forum. I believe that is where I should have reported this bug concerning the incorrect starting position when undoing a cut in 2.0.6.

Done, and thanks for the report. This bug affects all platforms but the advantage of posting in the board for your OS is that we know straight away which OS you have. Most people will still find the bug report if they do a simple search from top right of the Forum.


Gale

I added a sentence about that in the development Manual.

I think I'm catching on. The official documentation only deals with the current version and preference management. My question was with installing multiple versions. That's restricted to Secret Aural Teachings behind the barn, I'm betting.

Koz

kozikowski wrote: I think I'm catching on. The official documentation only deals with the current version and preference management. My question was with installing multiple versions. That's restricted to Secret Aural Teachings behind the barn, I'm betting.

It's just a deduction from the feature description. If you install Audacity inside a folder inside Applications (like you're supposed to), then you can put a "Portable Settings" folder in that folder. This implies that you can have multiple Audacities installed, each in its own folder (obviously each with a unique name such as "Audacity 2.0.6") and each with its own Portable Settings folder, thus each with its own set of preferences. I've been doing this since 1.3.8 when the Portable Settings folder was introduced. That way I could set up the latest stable version exactly the way I liked, but be able to reset preferences in the alpha version for testing and bug reporting without affecting my working version.
-- Bill

That way I could set up the latest stable version exactly the way I liked, but be able to reset preferences in the alpha version for testing and bug reporting without affecting my working version.

Which was a complaint I had early on.
It was the discovery of my missing "Deductive Gene" that convinced me programming was not to be my ticket to the good life. However, I'm perfectly positioned to model the average user.

Koz

kozikowski wrote:I'm perfectly positioned to model the average user.Koz

I don't think we want to officially encourage the average user to retain old versions of Audacity, so that had better remain something to be deduced.

However you can do it in the same way on Windows as on Mac if you obtain Audacity from zip files.

And if you don't mind the old Audacity versions having identical preferences (in so far as they can), you can simply have multiple differently named versions of Audacity inside the one Audacity folder sharing the same DLL files and plug-ins.


Gale

that had better remain something to be deduced.

Or passed on through secret aural teachings behind the barn. Yes, I got that.

However, it's not a stretch for a pro user to not go immediately into a new version when an older version has been working correctly. There is nothing like a Producer with a failed show screaming at you from inches away to cure you of Immediate Upgrade-itis for No Good Reason. Worse is the Producer who says nothing including any further job offers. Secret aural teachings about two different versions can be pretty valuable in that case.

if you don't mind the old Audacity versions having identical preferences

I do. The Pro version has to remain unsullied while the new version is going through testing. The two different Mac versions are particularly handy in that way. They are preference independent.

Koz

kozikowski wrote:it's not a stretch for a pro user to not go immediately into a new version when an older version has been working correctly.

I agree. Pro users will probably have greater powers of deduction.

Gale