Trouble changing tools.

[Krangar18]

Hi, Gale.

I haven't installed any VST plug-ins, or audio programs lately. I force-quit Audacity and tried the first .cfg code. It did not allow me to switch tools, and I still had to force-quit the program. I tried the second .cfg code for Multi-Tool mode, and it didn't seem to change anything. I tried to switch tools, and it crashed.

Some examples of the names of the .tmp files are as follows: aud1A00, aud1A0, aud1A0A, aud1B50, aud5A3C, aud8DD7, aud55A7, aud139D, aud754B, audFFF. As you know, there are a lot more. I just gave you the first two and then skipped through to the last one.

Since the .tmp files were probably created when I first started having problems with the program, do you think deleting them would help?

Changing the .cfg file did not seem to produce any results for me, but I've attached it in case you want to take a look at it anyway.

Thanks,
Krangar18

[Gale Andrews]

Thanks for the zip, but as expected the .cfg file only says "NewPrefsInitialized=1" because you had to force quit.

What might be helpful (as I suggested) would be for you to force-quit Audacity, edit .cfg down to NewPrefsInitialized=1, then launch Audacity and File > Exit at once without trying to switch tools. I'm not sure if you tried that. If it worked, that would write .cfg at a known state so if you then launched Audacity and switched tools we would know the .cfg state from which you were doing that.

Googling shows that aud*.tmp files are Adobe Audition temp files. *.aud files (which I understand you don't have) are Wavepad temporary files. Do you have Adobe Audition? Are you running it at the same time as Audacity? If you have Audition, go to Audition's "System preferences" and make sure neither temp directory is set to "Documents and Settings<your user name>Application DataAudacity". I would also question if Audition (or whatever program it is) has problems if it is spewing out thousands of temp files over the space of six minutes.

I still don't see why the presence of those temp files from another application should upset Audacity. Merely adding some empty AUD*.tmp files to the Audacity application folder on Windows 7 doesn't create your tool switching issue.

However if you are sure you don't need those tmp files for another program, yes, delete them. But before deletion, first try saving a real audacity.cfg file by force-quit, initialise .cfg, launch Audacity, immediate File > Exit (as above).

Thanks


Gale

[Krangar18]

Well Gale, good news. I got my tools back.

FIrst I went into the .cfg file to confirm that it was just the first line. I made sure that Audacity was not running. I deleted my 37,000+ .tmp files. I opened Audacity, and hit File + Exit. I hit Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Audacity was NOT still running. I checked the .cfg and it had about 20 lines of new code! I opened Audacity again and it allowed me switch tools again. It seems to be working just fine now.

So it was the .tmp files that were causing the problem. But I've never run Adobe Audition on my machine, so I'm not sure how they would've come from there. I don't know how Audacity is supposed to function in these situations, but it seems like it created all the .tmp files when it was (or because it was) struggling with all my clips. Maybe a few .tmp files wouldn't do anything, but I had over 37,000 and I guess it was just too much. It took me like 30 minutes to delete them.

Well thanks for sticking with me on this. I do appreciate it!

Krangar18

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[Gale Andrews]

Glad the problem has gone away, but I don't have any explanation. Audacity's temp files have .au extension and are in the path you specify in the Directories Preferences. I'm not aware of any other circumstance that normal operation of the program would create any other temporary files.

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Gale