Automatic Crash Recovery Seems to Work Well

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Hi,

I had to take advantage of the Automatic Crash Recovery on a project and it brought me back to exactly where I was when it crashed.

I was just wondering how often Audacity takes a “snapshot” of the work area in order to be able to do this?

Thanks,

Mike

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Hi Mike,

glad that worked OK for you, and many thanks for the report much appreciated.

We did a a lot of QA testing on the Recovery - I particularly like that you no longer get the scary messages about missing blocks or orphan blocks asking you what you want to do with them - now Audacity just handles all that for you.

I’ve just emailed the developer who implemented Unitary Project to ask him that question.

Peter.

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Thanks Peter,

Just an FYI in case you are tracking things.

When the crash occurred I was doing some spectral editing and I had just selected a section of the spectrum and I used an assigned keyboard shortcut to execute the spectral edit multi-tool command. I believe I did not have an upper or lower bound on the selection so I think it attempted to execute a notch filter on the selected frequency. I have done this many times under 3.0.0 with no problems so I don’t believe it was that particular command that caused my crash. But in case you are tracking, that is what was going on.

Mike

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Hi Mike,

I just tried but I can’t reproduce this crash (on W10) with the steps you describe.

Peter.

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It’s a per “action” basis, not a timer basis. Any action that modifies the project file will take a snapshot (we call it “autosave”). Several other do as well. Basically, anything you do that adds an entry to “View → History” will have created a snapshot.

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Thanks Leland, that’s good to know!