Re: End of the line

Thanks. If you have any more problems that deleting the lock file or
deleting audacity.cfg doesn't solve, please write down the exact
warning or take a screenshot.



Gale


On 8 November 2016 at 05:16, john francis lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> It just works again.
>
> On 11/08/2016 11:47 AM, Gale Andrews wrote:
>
> What is the exact text of the message? Is it that Audacity is already
> running? In that case try deleting the lock file in Audacity's temporary
> folder. It should be /var/tmp/ by default but if not, check in the file
> ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg (underneath the line that says [TempDir]).
>
> It complained once, referencing a warning that had in fact not been
> presented, offering to go ahead and start audacity or quit, having read the
> non-existent warning. I clicked 'yes' each time, and then audacity would,
> apparently, crash ... leaving the lockfile. 'ps ax | grep audacity' showed
> no instance running. Starting again would elicit the warning of the phantom
> second instance running ... clicking through that warning, proceeding in
> spite of the warning, yielded the same crash as before.
>
> Another thing you could do is just delete audacity.cfg if deleting the lock
> file does not help, or if the warning is about not having anywhere to
> store temporary files.
>
> As I say, I was able to click through the warning, which presumably deleted
> the lock file ... audacity crashed either way, with or without the 'other
> instance' warning.
>
> Also did you force quit Audacity? If so it should be offering you recovery
> of the audio that was present when you force quit.
>
> Yes, just now, when it started successfully, it presented that option. It
> spoke of a New project, I deleted 'old projects', I think it said, and then
> reloaded my own, real old project and lo, and behold, it seems to act
> normally. Must have been the spooks from the NSA. I'll try to do some work
> on my project, and report back if I have trouble. No news is good news.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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