Help for Audacity on macOS.
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and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Sun May 17, 2015 10:36 am
Scott549 wrote:With the recent crash, I was saving the project. I had not opened "About Audacity."
Do you recall if you used a keyboard shortcut to open the file save dialogue, or the mouse/trackpad?
You're not the only one to report a crash on Yosemite in the save or export window, but a developer has already spent a long time on it without being able to reproduce a crash. Nor have I seen this crash.
Scott549 wrote:I am recording with a cheap mixer running into a Mac desktop.
Is it possible to be more specific? Make and model number of the mixer, and does it connect to the Mac via USB or line-in?
Gale
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Sun May 17, 2015 10:44 am
Scott549 wrote:OK, just did the test with Audacity 2.1.0 and buffer at 10. About an hour and a half recording. No problems.
I really can't afford this to keep happening. Three people are committing over an hour of their time and the whole thing getting lost or corrupted with the popping sound. Any idea which is safer, using 2.0.5 or using 2.1.0 with buffer at 10?
My guess is that on Mac, 2.0.5 at 100 is in practical terms about the same as 2.1.0 at 10 or 20.
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Scott549
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by Scott549 » Sun May 17, 2015 2:43 pm
Gale Andrews wrote:
Is it possible to be more specific? Make and model number of the mixer, and does it connect to the Mac via USB or line-in?
Gale
It is an analog mixer; output of the mixer running into the line-in on the Mac. For what it's worth, I have used this setup for five years and over 200 recordings. I had one crash resulting in a lost file about two years ago. Other than that it has been reliable up until recently.
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Scott549
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by Scott549 » Sun May 17, 2015 4:28 pm
Has anyone had this issue with a newer Mac? Could it be partly a performance issue, or strictly a Yosemite/Audacity compatibility issue? (Don't know if anyone has the answer to this but I thought it would be worth asking.)
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cmac185
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by cmac185 » Sun May 17, 2015 10:39 pm
Just my opinion, but I don't think it is a performance issue since it works fine with Mavericks or, at least for you, Audacity 2.0.5. It also works fine for me if I go through the hoops that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago on this thread.
This doesn't track down the current problem, but one solution for you may be to record using 2.0.5 and edit with 2.1.0 since 2.1.0 is needed to use all the "effects" features on Yosemite.
