Re: End of the line

You bet. Will do. So far so good

On 11/09/2016 07:36 AM, Gale Andrews wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Gale
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> 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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