@Brash Blusher:
It would not be unreasonable to add a warning against moving or renaming the .aup file or _data folder into the "warning" that appears when saving a project. This might be done after the next major 2.0 version, after which we do not need to worry so much about breaking translations that have already been done. It may be more questionable if anyone would read the extra text, or possibly they might miss some other part because of the new text, but at least we could say "we told you so".
The reason your manual renaming of the .aup file and the _data folder didn't work is that you missed out the step of changing the reference in the .aup file to the renamed _data folder. We don't encourage people to edit the .aup file unless they know what they are doing. The way to rename a project is to use File > Save Project As, choose a new name then delete the original .aup and _data folder if you don't want them.
From your description, I don't think the orphans are due to renaming the .aup and _data folder - that caused the failure to find the _data folder. I think the "orphans" may be the data you copied. This data is retained in the project's _data folder while Audacity remains open, even if you close the project, so you can still use Edit > Paste to paste what you copied. If that did not happen, then Edit > Paste would have to grey out as soon as you closed the project. But if you are using Audacity 1.3.13 or earlier as I am guessing, that copied data would incorrectly be reported as "orphaned" if you re-opened the project without closing Audacity first.
The current Beta is 1.3.14:
http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows#recdown
If you see any of the following problems in 1.3.14:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Relea ... 3.14#known
(in the green box) please let us know.
Gale
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Gale Andrews
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@BB This set of tutorials may help you (if you haven't found them already): http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... iscs_to_CDBrash Blusher wrote:The manual - After only 4 days, I'm still working on reading the entire manual (er ... pedalling as fast as I can here).
The Quick Help - my Bible.
The FAQ - my best friend, but only if I know I need to ask a question and then know the precise question to ask.
Pop-up warning messages - Ah! Like the one that said to delete my orphan files, and that I immediately put on hold till I could investigate it.
This one has a lot of good advice which relates to tapes as well as LPs: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Samp ... gitization
The bulleted list of topics under "Understanding Audacity" are worth a read too, should give you a good understanding of Audacity - but you seem to have got yourself up and running rather quickly
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I should have said "Steve," not Gale or Gail ...