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Thanks to all for ideas and help, especially cyrano. As long as I kept the computer from going into sleep mode by opening other windows, checking email, etc. Audacity continued to record the entire sequence without a glitch.
tltphd

tltphd wrote:As long as I kept the computer from going into sleep mode by opening other windows, checking email, etc. Audacity continued to record the entire sequence without a glitch.

Have you set Windows not to sleep the computer in the Power Settings?

Gale

You're welcome!

Let's hope Apple fixes this big pile of bugs in El Capitan.

Since Lion, apple's reliability has been in the clouds. Everything needs to be iClouded, sent to Apple servers for backup and proxy. After all, you wouldn't want to type in that password from your Mac again on your iPhone, wouldn't you?

And this sleep issue is of the same magnitude. A large part of it is an Intel bug, but all Intel customers have to sign an agreement that they won't expect Intel to fix any bugs in existing hardware, so we're stuck with it...

It's a bit sad, really, that now that we have long enough battery life to record all day with a Macbook, we have to babysit it and keep it from falling asleep.

You will find helpful tips at the following pages:
5 Tools to Prevent Windows From Sleeping or Turning Off the Display
Sleep Preventer

The Audacity developers might find the tip at SetThreadExecutionState function helpful too.

HTH.
Cheers,
Robert

Oww... Let's hope Microsoft will deliver the workaround, in this case

Just some more info, for people interested in the number of "sleep states" a computer has these days:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/everythi ... ing-modes/

I'ts a tad bit more than we ourselves have. And it is the C3 or S3 state that is causing most of the sleep related bugs on affected hardware.