OS High Sierra 10:13:6
Audacity 2.2.2
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Download and install all went fine and clean.
Upon opening an Audacity file recorded on another computer (Windows), I get the pinwheel of death and Audacity won't respond - needing to Force Quit. This happens on both the local and dropbox directories (where I get the files to).
This doesn't happen with other files.
Any ideas?
Pinwheel of Death
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Re: Pinwheel of Death
Try copying or moving the file to a "normal" storage location before attempting to import / open it in Audacity. In the dropbox folder it may still be updating.
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kozikowski
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Re: Pinwheel of Death
Audacity doesn't understand Network Connected Storage.
It's invisible to you, but networks have unstable delays, collision detection/resends, and outright missing data errors. To naïve software, that looks like a broken hard drive.
Koz
It's invisible to you, but networks have unstable delays, collision detection/resends, and outright missing data errors. To naïve software, that looks like a broken hard drive.
Koz