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Fyve_by_Fyve wrote: I don't get an error number or anything. All I get is a box which says "Audacity Cross-Platform Sound Editor has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Blah, blah, blah."

No error number or anything.

Take a look in the Application Event Log, there should be an entry from Source "Application Error" for each crash. Hit Windows-X or right-click the start icon, select "Event Viewer" from the menu, then you should find the "Application" log under "Windows Logs". Post a copy of the contents of the log entry's text box and we may be able to find some clue there.

steve wrote:Did you use the .EXE installer? If so, do you still have the installer file? If you do, you can check its validity by testing it with this on-line checker: https://md5file.com/calculator

https://www.virustotal.com/ displays the SHA-256 right at the top. The MD5 and SHA-1 hashes can be found on the "Details" tab. As a bonus, anti-virus scans from 60+ engines is also provided.

Keep in mind that uploading private information is not always a great idea. 7-Zip provides a context menu in Windows Explorer. Otherwise, one can run PowerShell and use the "Get-FileHash" command (IIRC, the default algorithm is SHA-256.) From a UNIXish shell, "sha256sum" or sometimes "sha256" can be used.

Try this thread. Suggested downloading an older version of Audacity. The trick is though you still need the newer one on your computer also.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=64096

TraceySchulz wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:37 am

Try this thread. Suggested downloading an older version of Audacity. The trick is though you still need the newer one on your computer also.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=64096

That's an ancient thread, in which Gale Andrews is recommending updating to a newer version of Audacity.
I would not recommend going back to an older version because (a) I very much doubt it will solve this problem (b) There have been many bug fixes and other improvements in newer versions.