Macro to delete original file?

Programming and Development Macros and Scripting
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Hi, I am using a Macro to batch convert files to mp3. Converted files are placed in a “Cleaned” folder (created by Audacity) in the same folder as the originals.

I have a few macro questions

  1. Is there a way to add “delete original file” to the macro?

  2. Is there a way to move the converted file to the original folder instead of “cleaned” folder?

  3. Is there a way to choose files from a finder’s Search folder results? I want to be able to find all audio files and convert without going into each folder. I have audio files in separate patient folders and they must remain in that patient’s folder.

FYI - I have found I get the smallest files when (Apple’s) Voice Memos app is set to record as Lossless and then I use Audacity to compress. Audacity compresses significantly more than the Voice Memo Compressed setting.

Thanks!
-Ashley

Using the most current Mojave and Audacity 2.32

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No there isn’t, and I’d highly recommend checking that your exported files are correct before deleting the original files.

Batch processing with an ordinary macro always exports to a “cleaned” folder. If you require more flexibility you would need to use Python scripting (see: Scripting - Audacity Manual)

Again, for that flexibility, you would need to use Python.

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From 2.3.2 onwards we changed the name of that output folder to “macro-output”.

Peter.