Unrecoverable startup error in 2.4.2 and earlier

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Re: Unrecoverable startup error in 2.4.2 and earlier

Post by jarome » Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:29 pm

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Re: Unrecoverable startup error in 2.4.2 and earlier

Post by steve » Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:39 pm

steve wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:17 pm
 I can confirm that exFAT does not work for Audacity's Temp folder.

My speculation is that it may be a permissions issue, as exFAT does not support file permissions.
Close but no cigar.
It's because FAT / exFAT do not support Unix socket files, which are used by Audacity on macOS and Linux for single instance checking.
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Re: Unrecoverable startup error in 2.4.2 and earlier

Post by jarome » Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:45 pm

So, Audacity needs to somehow check on the file system of the temp directory before accepting a change. At the very least, put a notice in the user GUI that FAT and ExFAT are not allowed.
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Re: Unrecoverable startup error in 2.4.2 and earlier

Post by steve » Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:03 pm

People are working on it.
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Re: Unrecoverable startup error in 2.4.2 and earlier

Post by waxcylinder » Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:26 pm

jarome wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:45 pm
 At the very least, put a notice in the user GUI that FAT and ExFAT are not allowed.
That is what is likely to be happening.

Plus there will be stuff about it in the Manual (oh and the 3.0.0 Release Notes).

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