Re: [Audacity-quality] [Audacity-devel] Fwd: Marinbe research application of Audacity

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
| Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:21:41 -0700
| Subject: [Audacity-quality] [Audacity-devel] Fwd: Marinbe research application of Audacity
> On 3/30/2013 3:55 PM, Gary Nelson wrote:
> >> A few years ago I suggested to the developers that Audacity could be a
> > > superb tool for acoustic analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations of
>  >> cetaceans such as Harbor Porpoises.
> >>
> >>  I am grateful that the crew then made a few tweaks that make it possible to 
> > > use Audacity at sampling frequencies up to 1MHz.  Our porpoise project
> > > went fallow until now.  I am now using Mac OSX 10.8.3 and after using
> > > Audacity a couple times to successfully to edit a file sampled at 1MHz,
> > > I find that now all attempts to open old or new projects results in the
> > > project window coming in collapsed to a thin horizontal line that
> > > sometimes will respond to a mouse gesture, but mostly refuses to open. 
> > >
> > > If I open another project, another horizontal line appears.  If
> > > I collapse all apps with the Mac four finger sweep, Audacity appears as
> > >  the familiar headphone icon with as many horizontal white lines as
> > >  projects I have attempted to open. The application appears to be running
> > >  (Activity Monitor shows it is ok) but the window is simply collapsed and
> > > won't open.
> 
> Glad your project is reviving, Gary. Sorry to hear you're experiencing 
> problems. I'm cc-ing our -quality list to see whether anyone there knows 
> about this problem. What version of Audacity are you using? Please make 
> sure it's the latest.
> 
> 
> >>
> >> This looks like some configuration or preference file has been corrupted, 
> > > but I can't find any such Audacity files in the Library/Preferences.
> > > Can you suggest a way to get this going again?
> >>
> 
> See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Preferences for 
> instructions on how to reset prefs.

Gary,

I don't recognise your problem description. 

Please follow the link Vaughan gave i.e. quit or force quit Audacity
then in Finder, use Go > Go to Folder and type:

   ~/Library/Application Support/audacity .

Open audacity.cfg in TextEdit, or create audacity.cfg if it does not 
exist.

Delete all the content of audacity.cfg then just add this line at 
the top:

   NewPrefsInitialized=1 

and save the file. 

If the problem persists after that, please attach an image of the 
collapsed state of the project. 




Gale