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Re: [Audacity-quality] Problem saving 4.18 GB file on MacOS
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From: Cliff <fly...@gm...> - 2021-02-16 21:39:36
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Kudos, Leland!!!!!! You’re the man!! Built and tested various ways and it’s doing the right thing. Glad it was an easy fix! All my original steps would have driven you crazy so it was nice to find a simple way to cause the issue. Cliff > On Feb 16, 2021, at 14:59, Leland <ll...@ho...> wrote: > > Try it now Cliff. Either update and rebuild or grab it from: > > https://github.com/audacity/audacity/actions/runs/572838812 <https://github.com/audacity/audacity/actions/runs/572838812> > > From: Leland <ll...@ho...> > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 2:28 PM > To: 'audacity-quality' <aud...@li...> > Subject: Re: [Audacity-quality] Problem saving 4.18 GB file on MacOS > > Awesome Cliff. Very easy to recreate per you discovery. Looking into it. > > From: Cliff <fly...@gm... <mailto:fly...@gm...>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:27 PM > To: audacity-quality <aud...@li... <mailto:aud...@li...>> > Subject: Re: [Audacity-quality] Problem saving 4.18 GB file on MacOS > > Here’s the skinny as they say - :) > > I’m generating the project, so Peter, not opening an old version of a file. > > Peter's steps work just fine. I thought, because the first time it happened it was the 4.18 GB was the issue, but apparently not. However with the saved file from Peter’s test then do a Save As it it will fail. It will not allow you to save it to another file name so you don’t need all my steps to cause the failure. Even doing slight editing then SaveAs doesn’t work either. Strange. > > I’ll send the support data directly to Leland. > > Cliff > > > >> On Feb 16, 2021, at 10:17, James Crook <jam...@gm... <mailto:jam...@gm...>> wrote: >> >> I'd say this is a P1 and the real question is, is it a Repeatable or a Moonphase? >> Needs to be in Bugzilla. >> >> Cliff, can you try creating a 5 hour chirp, i.e. follow Peter's steps. >> >> If things go amiss on your machine, perhaps our code is incorrectly determining that your drive is FAT32 formatted?? I'm actually hoping things go awry, because then we can track it down. >> >> --James. >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 12:09, Peter Sampson <pet...@gm... <mailto:pet...@gm...>> wrote: >>> Cliff, >>> >>> are you trying to open an AIP3 file that was created with an older 3.0.0 alpha into the latest alpha? >>> >>> Note that the database schema has been changed recently - and unused table was removed. >>> >>> Peter. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:17 AM Leland <ll...@ho... <mailto:ll...@ho...>> wrote: >>>> And I’d be interested in getting the “Help -> Diagnostic -> Generate Support Data” zip file. It will now have a dump of the files XML doc and I’d like to see if there’s anything obviously wrong with it. Might even be able to “recreate” your file here using dummy sample data and that XML doc. >>>> >>>> From: Peter Sampson <pet...@gm... <mailto:pet...@gm...>> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 4:03 AM >>>> To: audacity-quality <aud...@li... <mailto:aud...@li...>>; Peter Sampson <pet...@gm... <mailto:pet...@gm...>> >>>> Subject: Re: [Audacity-quality] Problem saving 4.18 GB file on MacOS >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:13 PM Cliff <fly...@gm... <mailto:fly...@gm...>> wrote: >>>>> This had me really going trying to figure out what was wrong and finally figured it was the file size. I get the warning about not enough disk space then I have nearly 600 GB free. The Directory is not locked. >>>>> >>>>> Using MacOS Mojave, build downloaded today from GitHub and also one from Dec 5th, same issue, I have a project file that is 4.18GB. It will not let me save it to another file name. It gives a warning “Failed to write file, maybe disk full etc.” Somehow our checking of file size is messed up on MacOS. Exporting as a Wav and then opening and saving to the same directory works just fine, but of course it is a smaller file. Most of the 4GB is undo history so the original save somehow didn’t get rid of the undo history properly and resulted in a very large file. >>>>> >>>>> Two problems here: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Initial save of project was after editing etc. and the saved file was saved without compaction. I watched the save and there was no compaction dialog. It was like something quit since it saved then exited very quickly. >>>>> >>>>> 2. Saving a large file like 4.18GB is not allowed. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Question - File P1 bugs or Quick fix without bugs? >>>> >>>> I see no bug >>>> >>>> Testing with Audacity 3.0.0 37b36f5 on macOS 11.2.1 >>>> >>>> 1) New project >>>> 2) Generate 5 hour stereo chirp >>>> 3) Save Project >>>> 4) Observe: saves OK >>>> 5) Examine project file with finder >>>> 6) Observe: file size is 6.44GB >>>> >>>> Audacity can be closed and the project successfully reopened. >>>> >>>> >>>> Where we formerly had a problem with 4GB limits was with FAT and FAT32 formatted drives (and >>>> that is a limitation of the format) - so to deal with that we blocked the use of FAT/FAT32 drives for >>>> a) saving projects >>>> b) temporary files directory. >>>> >>>> So this begs the question: what drive type/format are you saving to? >>>> >>>> >>>> BTW the other 4GB limit is that that is the maximum size limit for an exported WAV or AIFF file >>>> (and once again that is a format limitation). >>>> >>>> Peter. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Cliff >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Audacity-quality mailing list >>>>> Aud...@li... <mailto:Aud...@li...> >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Audacity-quality mailing list >>>> Aud...@li... <mailto:Aud...@li...> >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Audacity-quality mailing list >>> Aud...@li... <mailto:Aud...@li...> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality> >> _______________________________________________ >> Audacity-quality mailing list >> Aud...@li... <mailto:Aud...@li...> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality> > > _______________________________________________ > Audacity-quality mailing list > Aud...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-quality |
