I'm using an iMac with OS X 10.7.5 software installed. I installed Audacity from dmg.
While numbering song tracks I, as it turned out unfortunately, used the zoom tool to be sure I found the beginning of each song, per recommendation of the Audacity manual. Now, instead of the usual mouse pointer appearing on the screen, a tiny magnifying glass with a "+" in it appears and whenever I click the mouse the track keeps enlarging, as it's meant to. That's fine for finding the exact start of a song, but after doing that I want to be able to disable the zoom feature and restore the mouse pointer. I've tried everything I can think of, including selecting the "view>zoom normal" option.
Anybody have a suggestion?
Zoom Tool
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Re: Zoom Tool
You need to switch back to the "Selection Tool".
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... html#mouse
On Windows/Linux you can change to the Selection tool with the F1 key - it may be the same on a Mac.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... html#mouse
On Windows/Linux you can change to the Selection tool with the F1 key - it may be the same on a Mac.
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