How to diable popup "Save project before closing?"

[pstein]

Whenever I loaded an audio tracking and want to exit Audacity (even without having edited or converted something) a prompt appears:

"Save project before closing?"

How can I prevent/suppress this popup (forever)?

Peter

[kozikowski]

You could save a Project. That does work.

I always thought not performing any edits would suppress the message, but apparently 2.2.2 doesn't do that.

I got it. If you open a Project and then immediately close it, there is no message.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

How can I prevent/suppress this popup (forever)?

The only way is if you compile Audacity yourself and suppress that message in the source.

This has been discussed many times by Audacity Developers and QA - and it has always been considered that it is too risky/dangerous to enable general suppression of this message.

Some consideration is being given to possibly suppressing this message if all the user does is import an audio file and just plays it, making no edits whatsoever, and then exits Audacity.

WC

[kozikowski]

just plays it, making no edits whatsoever

And a variation on that is if the user does make changes but then Exports Something, Audacity assumes that was the goal and suppresses the message. Other software works that way.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

just plays it, making no edits whatsoever

And a variation on that is if the user does make changes but then Exports Something, Audacity assumes that was the goal and suppresses the message. Other software works that way.

I always thought you never liked software that "tries to help you" too much Koz

Whenever this topic comes up I always have to scratch my head and ask myself: "Why is it so hard just to click the No button?"

All the other apps I use Word, Excel, Dive Manager, Photoshop etc. have a similar warning message on exit with unsaved changes.

Peter.

[kozikowski]

"Why is it so hard just to click the No button?"

It's out of rhythm.

Anybody who does a lot of production gets into the pulse, process and rhythm of the show. All the other actions, edits, motions, etc have an Action > Result form except that one. That one is Action > Because Audacity Felt Like It For No Reason.

I don't remember the exact circumstances, but this actually happened. I had to leave the house so I carefully closed all applications, collected my belongings, got in the car and left. When I got back several hours later, the screen was frozen in a "Save Project Now??" panel. Audacity, a little slow off the mark had prevented the normal Sleep process from completing.

So I learned my lesson. But why do I have to learn anything? This is awkward software behavior.

I can do this with finance as well. It's no mystery people are using Audacity for their business. If you have several Audacity panels open, it takes you twice as long to close each one as you're expecting, in general, for no reason.

As I wrote somewhere else, I don't need or want Audacity to tell me what my goal is.

SHOW THIS PANEL NEXT TIME?
Yes ___
No _X_

Koz

[Edgar]

If you have several Audacity panels open, it takes you twice as long to close each one

To make it even worse (unless something has changed recently) when you have multiple panels open and the dialog pops up there's no indication of which of the panels it's asking about. I offered a few lines of code years ago which includes the title of the panel in the text of the dialogue. At same time I offered a few lines of code which added a "don't nag about this again" option. All the elves on the forum like the "title of the panel in the text of the dialogue" but it was never presented to a Senior Developer and I've never had commit rights.

I think the "don't nag me about this again" option is the number one request I have for the customized versions of Audacity I provide.

[kozikowski]

the number one request

What's number two?

Koz

[Edgar]

the number one request

What's number two?

Tie between; 1) a Save As... (sic) under File menu with WAV, MP3 and some special formats a couple of companies specify; and 2) When you import a file then export the modification, have the "Export" dialog open in the same folder the import came from (with a preference item for multiple import going to either the first or last item's folder - one paying customer wanted it one way, another wanted it the other so this was the best solution).

My personal #1/#2 are complete font sensitivity (family, size and style) and total control of color. All my dialog (and the main GUI) are fully font aware (everything resizes as needed and scroll bars are added as needed). EVERY GUI item has a preference for foreground and background color (including the text font thereon.But remember, this is all Audacity 2.0.6 (no themes) and wxWidgets 2.8.

[waxcylinder]

My numero uno: fix all the bear-traps: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/ToDo ... _a_Mode%27

and number 2 - fix all the P2 and P3 bugs

And I'd like to see LAME bundled in Audacity.

Peter.