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

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

Thanks.  Yes, I have used Process Monitor in the past.

However I understand this complaint from users in the Forum is not one we
know how to reproduce.

PRL


On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:29 PM Mike Hodson <my...@gm...> wrote:

> Out of my bag of windows debugging tools, has anyone yet taken
> Sysinternals' Process Monitor and looked to see which files are returning
> open errors while Audacity generates these messages?
>
> 0 Code required and a free Microsoft debugging tool to see what the app is
> trying to do; I don't know if users need to be debugging this particular
> issue, but for devs it might be helpful to see what is attempting to be
> opened and failing where on other OSes it doesn't seem to have the same
> effect.  For the curious, it's my 1st recommendation.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:35 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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