Wouldn't it be better if Audacity worked out how big the WAV file would be before even attempting to export it? Then, if >4GB, Audacity could advise the user of what they need to do without wasting time writing and deleting large amounts of useless data.Edgar wrote: It should, Export could return FALSE in this case and the proper rollback (deleting the malformed file if necessary) could terminate with the warning. If not, I would consider this a bug.
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Re: Audacity not fully exporting audio file
I just had a brief look at the code and Audacity calculates the entire size of the export before starting the Write (but it does repetitive Writes in small blocks). At this point it might not be immediately aware of the export format but I am sure that the format can be determined and, if not, the format could be passed to the Export function as an additional parameter.steve wrote:Wouldn't it be better if Audacity worked out how big the WAV file would be before even attempting to export it? Then, if >4GB, Audacity could advise the user of what they need to do without wasting time writing and deleting large amounts of useless data.Edgar wrote: It should, Export could return FALSE in this case and the proper rollback (deleting the malformed file if necessary) could terminate with the warning. If not, I would consider this a bug.
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Re: Audacity not fully exporting audio file
I've moved it to "Adding Features".
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Re: Audacity not fully exporting audio file
BUMP - what is the underlying feature request
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Re: Audacity not fully exporting audio file
Do something more helpful than dumbly exporting WAV files > 4GB.waxcylinder wrote:BUMP - what is the underlying feature request
This seems like more of a bugzilla "enhancement" issue rather than a "feature request".
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Re: Audacity not fully exporting audio file
I agree. I think an enhancement issue is justified given we get this at least twice a month on the Forum. I made a note to add it sometime, if no-one else does. Probably we should have a mild warning for a file between 2 GB and 4 GB, and different strong warning for a file over 4 GB.steve wrote:Do something more helpful than dumbly exporting WAV files > 4GB.waxcylinder wrote:BUMP - what is the underlying feature request
This seems like more of a bugzilla "enhancement" issue rather than a "feature request".
I'm archiving this now.
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