Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity failed to read a file on C:

[Paul L. <pau...@gm...>]

No clues as to operating system and appplication versions?

The proximate source of that message is of course in
FileExeption::ErrorMessage() which I wrote in 2.2.0, but by the time you
reach the code that produes the message, and exception has "long ago" been
thrown and caught, and you are not even in the catch-block any more, but
instead in a delayed handler that runs in idle time of the event loop to
give you a notification that there was a problem.

So if you do find a way to reproduce the messages, then to debug it
further, you need to change settings of your debugger to break as soon as
exceptions are thrown, or else find the places where an exception with
Cause::Read is constructed, and put breakpoints there.

PRL



On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 6:35 AM, Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
wrote:

> OK, so how about the specific message:
> "Audacity failed to read from a file on drive c:"
>
> My IDE does not understand the code, I don't understand the code, and
> neither myself, other support crew or the user understand what this
> message is saying.
> OK, I get that Audacity may have failed to read something on drive C:,
> but what, where, why, and how does the user fix it?
>
> Also, why are we seeing this problem regularly occur now? Does this
> indicate a bug in Audacity?
>
> Steve
>
> On 17 April 2018 at 21:46, Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > On the forum we are quite regularly hearing of problems where users
> > see error messages similar to "Audacity failed to read a file on C:"
> > when attempting to open a project.
> >
> > I see that this is a group of similar messages.
> > What precisely do these messages mean, and why do they occur?
> >
> > Steve
>
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