Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity Error

[Simon P. M. <smu...@gm...>]

Hi Todd, I would step into that piece of code. It might reveal the problem.

Simon.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Todd Baker <ba...@rf...> wrote:

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

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?
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>
>
> 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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