Audacity 2.1.0 can't open new projects using a shortcut
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and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
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Re: Audacity 2.1.0 can't open new projects using a shortcut
There are (technically) lots of problems with how Audacity handles multiple open projects. Ctrl+N is a relatively safe way to open more than one project, but there are still many problems that need to be resolved. Getting this "right" is very difficult, but it is something that the developers are aware of, so in the short/medium term there may be some cutbacks on multiple projects so that in the long term multiple projects can be handled correctly and safely.
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rambomhtri
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Re: Audacity 2.1.0 can't open new projects using a shortcut
But this "feature", that's not even a feature, is something that actually was working in all the older versions. I don't understand why you say all of that now. I've always used the quick shortcut in the taskbar to open new projects and never, ever had a problem, and I've been using Audacity since 2009, and a LOT. Specially this "feature".steve wrote:There are (technically) lots of problems with how Audacity handles multiple open projects. Ctrl+N is a relatively safe way to open more than one project, but there are still many problems that need to be resolved. Getting this "right" is very difficult, but it is something that the developers are aware of, so in the short/medium term there may be some cutbacks on multiple projects so that in the long term multiple projects can be handled correctly and safely.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Audacity 2.1.0 can't open new projects using a shortcut
It's no use going on about this. There is a bug report open for it. The changes were made primarily for Linux where there was a long-standing problem that once Audacity was running, you couldn't open a file in a new Audacity window at all. We wanted to make sure these changes were safe.rambomhtri wrote:But this "feature", that's not even a feature, is something that actually was working in all the older versions. I don't understand why you say all of that now. I've always used the quick shortcut in the taskbar to open new projects and never, ever had a problem, and I've been using Audacity since 2009, and a LOT. Specially this "feature".steve wrote:There are (technically) lots of problems with how Audacity handles multiple open projects. Ctrl+N is a relatively safe way to open more than one project, but there are still many problems that need to be resolved. Getting this "right" is very difficult, but it is something that the developers are aware of, so in the short/medium term there may be some cutbacks on multiple projects so that in the long term multiple projects can be handled correctly and safely.
You know that you can change the CTRL + N shortcut in Keyboard Preferences, don't you? So if you need to open the new window with one hand, change it to a single key shortcut.
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rambomhtri
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Re: Audacity 2.1.0 can't open new projects using a shortcut
Oh, version 2.1.2 still didn't fix this bug we have in Audacity for Windows since 2.1.0 version. 
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rambomhtri
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Re: Audacity 2.1.0 can't open new projects using a shortcut
Not fixed in 2.2.0 
Could you take a look at it?
Could you take a look at it?