I recently installed El Capitan, and since doing so, I've encountered an annoyance. Every time I open a new file in Audacity, the file selection window begins at the topmost directory on my machine, rather than the last folder from which I opened a file. This isn't a showstopper issue, of course, but it is adding a lot of unnecessary time to my workflow. Is there some way that I can force Audacity to initially show me the same folder from which I opened the last file?
I'm running Audacity 2.0.3 on OS 10.11.3.
Opening Files From the Same Directory?
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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/.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Opening Files From the Same Directory?
The current version of Audacity is 2.1.2: http://audacityteam.org/download/mac. To avoid Audacity crashes on portable Mac's you are strongly recommended to upgrade to 2.1.2.
Audacity stores the last folder you opened or imported a file from at "DefaultOpenPath" in the audacity.cfg settings file. If that is not working, quit Audacity, open Finder, Go > Go to Folder, type:
then delete the "audacity.cfg" settings file.
Gale
Audacity stores the last folder you opened or imported a file from at "DefaultOpenPath" in the audacity.cfg settings file. If that is not working, quit Audacity, open Finder, Go > Go to Folder, type:
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~/Library/Application Support/audacity/then delete the "audacity.cfg" settings file.
Gale
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Re: Opening Files From the Same Directory?
Unfortunately, deleting the .cfg file didn't work. I'm currently downloading 2.1.2, but for some reason it's taking an agonizingly long time to do so - 41 hours to download 14 megs?
Re: Opening Files From the Same Directory?
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Re: Opening Files From the Same Directory?
That worked like magic. Thanks so much for all the help!