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Gale Andrews wrote: Well you could try 2.1.3-alpha from http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac/ then at least we will know if it happens there. Normally it is best to take the latest build, so try the ZIP of the release configuration build:
http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... add979.zip.

Tried it, no difference at all.
What's happening to Audacity, has it gone bilingual?
This build is in Spanish which I know but it makes me feel schizo. I prefer to have everything in English so as not to be forced to switch to a different language.

Gale Andrews wrote:Audacity will sooner or later drop support for OS X 10.6 because it impedes developing Audacity for current macOS. It will happen as soon as we fix enough bugs to make a good "final version" for Snow Leopard.

A pity!

rtomasov wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote: Well you could try 2.1.3-alpha from http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac/ then at least we will know if it happens there. Normally it is best to take the latest build, so try the ZIP of the release configuration build:
http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... add979.zip.

Tried it, no difference at all.
What's happening to Audacity, has it gone bilingual?
This build is in Spanish which I know but it makes me feel schizo. I prefer to have everything in English so as not to be forced to switch to a different language.

The build is language-independent. If you have the Mac running in Spanish then Audacity defaults to Spanish.

You can choose the language you want at Audacity > Preferences..., "Interface" section.


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:

rtomasov wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote: Well you could try 2.1.3-alpha from http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac/ then at least we will know if it happens there. Normally it is best to take the latest build, so try the ZIP of the release configuration build:
http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... add979.zip.

rtomasov wrote:Tried it, no difference at all.
What's happening to Audacity, has it gone bilingual?
This build is in Spanish which I know but it makes me feel schizo. I prefer to have everything in English so as not to be forced to switch to a different language.

Gale Andrews wrote:The build is language-independent. If you have the Mac running in Spanish then Audacity defaults to Spanish.
You can choose the language you want at Audacity > Preferences..., "Interface" section.

My Mac is not running in Spanish; I don't understand why this build opened in Spanish.
In any case, I don't see your comment on "Tried it, no difference at all."
Where do I go from here?
Thanks

rtomasov wrote:I don't see your comment on "Tried it, no difference at all."
Where do I go from here?

Nothing can be fixed until we can reproduce the problem. No-one else has the problem that you are experiencing and no-one here has a working installation of Snow Leopard. Apple dropped support for Snow Leopard over two years ago. And even so, no-one reported this problem when Snow Leopard was in Apple support.

Can you still run Mavericks on the external drive you mentioned? Does Mavericks exhibit the problem?

Also you can look at http://www.audacityteam.org/download/legacy-mac/. There is an older 2.0.6 version of Audacity you can try, or older 2.0.x versions if you click the GoogleCode link farther down that page.


Gale

rtomasov wrote:What's happening to Audacity, has it gone bilingual?
This build is in Spanish which I know but it makes me feel schizo. I prefer to have everything in English so as not to be forced to switch to a different language.

I've had this error with Audacity too, under Snow. It's been a while and I can't remember exactly how I solved this. And it probably was an older Audacity version too.

Did you delete some languages from your Mac?
Did you try resetting system language to English in System Prefrences-> Language & Text?
Did you try SL-NTFS (a Windows utility enabling use of NTFS disks) or anything likewise?

BTW I don't think this is an Audacity error, as it seems to happen to a lot of applications in rare cases.

cyrano wrote:

rtomasov wrote:What's happening to Audacity, has it gone bilingual?
This build is in Spanish which I know but it makes me feel schizo. I prefer to have everything in English so as not to be forced to switch to a different language.

I've had this error with Audacity too, under Snow. It's been a while and I can't remember exactly how I solved this. And it probably was an older Audacity version too.

Did you delete some languages from your Mac?

Haven't deleted any language.

cyrano wrote: Did you try resetting system language to English in System Prefrences-> Language & Text?
Did you try SL-NTFS (a Windows utility enabling use of NTFS disks) or anything likewise?
BTW I don't think this is an Audacity error, as it seems to happen to a lot of applications in rare cases.

Language & Text in System Preferences is set to English.
Didn't try SL-NTFS
This issye happened only in Audaccity.

Thanks

Gale Andrews wrote:

rtomasov wrote:I don't see your comment on "Tried it, no difference at all."
Where do I go from here?

Nothing can be fixed until we can reproduce the problem. No-one else has the problem that you are experiencing and no-one here has a working installation of Snow Leopard. Apple dropped support for Snow Leopard over two years ago. And even so, no-one reported this problem when Snow Leopard was in Apple support.

Can you still run Mavericks on the external drive you mentioned? Does Mavericks exhibit the problem?

The problem doesn't happen in Mavericks, i wonder why. The computer is one; Mavericks is installed on an external HD but the Mac is controlling it. Baffling since the headset has no driver; it's a plug and play set.

Thank you Gale

Sometimes Core Audio prefs get corrupt and you need to trash them. Give this a try:

- Go to ~/Library/Preferences/Audio
- Delete com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist
- Delete com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist
- Restart your Mac

cyrano wrote:Sometimes Core Audio prefs get corrupt and you need to trash them. Give this a try:

- Go to ~/Library/Preferences/Audio
- Delete com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist
- Delete com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist
- Restart your Mac

cyrano,
There is no Audio folder in ~/Library/Preferences.
Do you mean /Library/Preferences?
I find com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist & com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist in /Library/Preferences/Audio
Thanks

Yes. Sorry, brainfart.