Can't use Noise Removal any more.

[Bryanmc]

I've been an Audacity user for years and one of the things I use the most is the noise removal tool.

Just a week or so ago, it will no longer work. I sample the noise to remove as always, but when I then select everything and return to the Noise Removal tool the preview and ok options are grayed out.

This just started about a week ago when I was still on 1.2something. I upgraded to 1.3.5d to see if that would fix it and the issue remains.

Anyone have any ideas to check?

Thanks!

[Gale Andrews]

There would appear to be some reason Audacity can't write the noisegate file that contains the profile; it's possible it's some kind of permissions problem. Did you make any permissions changes around the time the problem started?

Trash all your versions of Audacity and trash both the 1.2 and 1.3 settings files as per here:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... references

Then make sure you install Audacity thus:

1. Inside your Applications folder, create a folder called "Audacity"
2. Double-click the downloaded .dmg to mount it
3. Option-drag the whole of the .dmg contents (not the .dmg itself) into the "Audacity" folder you created
4. Double-click Audacity.app inside the Applications folder to launch it

Also are you always trying this with the same Audacity project or is it replicable if you start afresh from launching Audacity, generate some noise and try and grab the profile of that?


Gale