PLEASE HELP!!!
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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.
PLEASE HELP!!!
uhh ok so i tried exporting a AAIF file and it says "cannot export audio to Volume/Audacity2.0.4/audacity/Audacity recording.Aiff. im getting pretty mad at this point plzz help
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kozikowski
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Re: PLEASE HELP!!!
I think some Audacity installs try to save your exported work to the /Applications or other system folder. That's a bad idea. Export new sound files to Desktop or Music or other predictable place.
Are you trying to run Audacity from the downloaded disk image? That's a bad idea, too. Install Audacity for real before you use it.
Double click the .dmg file and it will explode into the program folder and instructions like this:
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* To install Audacity, copy the Audacity folder to /Applications or
any other location of your choosing.
* If you are a first-time user of Audacity, security settings on
OS X 10.7 or later may block Audacity being launched. To permanently
enable Audacity launch, right-click or control-click on the Audacity
application in Finder, choose "Open", then in the dialog box that
appears, choose "Open".
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If you have completely scrambled permissions, you may get that as well.
Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities > select your system disk and Repair Permissions.
Koz
Are you trying to run Audacity from the downloaded disk image? That's a bad idea, too. Install Audacity for real before you use it.
Double click the .dmg file and it will explode into the program folder and instructions like this:
======================
* To install Audacity, copy the Audacity folder to /Applications or
any other location of your choosing.
* If you are a first-time user of Audacity, security settings on
OS X 10.7 or later may block Audacity being launched. To permanently
enable Audacity launch, right-click or control-click on the Audacity
application in Finder, choose "Open", then in the dialog box that
appears, choose "Open".
======================
If you have completely scrambled permissions, you may get that as well.
Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities > select your system disk and Repair Permissions.
Koz
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billw58
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- Operating System: macOS 10.15 Catalina or later
Re: PLEASE HELP!!!
You are running Audacity from the DMG : "Volumes/Audacity2.0.4/".
Please install Audacity according to the instructions on the download page: http://audacityteam.org/download/mac .
-- Bill
Please install Audacity according to the instructions on the download page: http://audacityteam.org/download/mac .
-- Bill