Audacity Running Extremely Slow

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Re: Audacity Running Extremely Slow

Post by steve » Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:59 am

CINEPHOBIA wrote:
Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:28 am
deleting the audacity cache folder which makes it work fine for 1 task but then dies again
What do you mean by the "cache folder"?
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Re: Audacity Running Extremely Slow

Post by CINEPHOBIA » Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:41 pm

steve wrote:
Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:59 am
What do you mean by the "cache folder"?
I trash the following folder and restart:

Library/Application Support/audacity/Session Data

I saw this suggested in a similar but not exactly related problem.

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Re: Audacity Running Extremely Slow

Post by steve » Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:38 pm

CINEPHOBIA wrote:
Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:28 am
which makes it work fine for 1 task but then dies again
What do you by "1 task"? Do you mean like: Apply the Amplify effect works, but then anything else is extremely slow,
or do you mean that it works fine for one project, but then the problem comes back when you start another project?


As you've probably figured out; we can't reproduce the problem, and we're trying to figure out exactly what is happening. We can't see your machine so we only know what you tell us. At this point, I still don't really have a clear picture.
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