[Audacity-devel] Audacity Error

[Todd B. <ba...@rf...>]

Dear All:

 

I posted something about this earlier but never got a response, so maybe
I can get someone to try this for me.

 

I have run into a problem with my version of Audacity. It has to do with
the Portable Settings Directory. If I rename this directory (say Poot
Settings or something),

And start Audacity, the Filenames.cpp code will attempt to make the
Directory c:\Documents And Settings\{myuserid}\Application Data\
Audacity as the gDataDir.

(This happens around line 112 in my copy of FileNames.cpp).  I am
running this in Visual Studio on Windows XP..... Audacity version
3.11-alpha Dec 29 2009.

 

But when I run this in the debugger this directory is never created,
which eventually will affect my ability to Export into my database the
actual sound file,

I believe this is the root of the problem since the data directory that
I think I am using doesn't actually exist.

 

Can someone attempt this in their environment(s), with the debugger, and
see if you are seeing the same behavior?

 

I can Export and Import in files directly with Audacity, but when I
attempt to do that with my database something gets confused and it
writes out a blank sound file eventually.

I am more curious about the FIleNames.cpp code and whether people see
the same behavior in terms of the directory not being there. I am
thinking the import/Export

Stuff in Audacity proper works because it puts the file in the current
working directory....and it defaults to there so it finds it.

 

Thanks,

 

Todd Baker

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