Re: [Audacity-devel] Huge AUP3 project issue

[Steve F. <ste...@gm...>]

It looks like we may not be escaping single quotes somewhere.
Logged on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2793

Steve

On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 14:31, Steve Fiddle <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> He has sent me the huge file (445 MB as 7z) and I can make it
> available to any developer that wants to take a look, but he has asked
> me not to make the project public, so I'll send a link to the file on
> request.
>
> On my (Linux) computer with Audacity 3.0.2, I can open the file,
> reverse the first track, Undo, Save, Exit, and the file shrinks to 186
> MiB. So it seems that "something" is stopping compaction from working
> on his (Windows 10) machine.
>
> Conjecture: Perhaps this is also related to the extreme slowness that
> some  users are experiencing.
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 16:27, Steve Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 04:59, Leland <ll...@ho...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Steve, have him open the project, duplicate a track, reverse the new
> track,
> > > save the project, delete the new track, save again.  Does the project
> reduce
> > > in size then?
> > > (Basically, trying to force compaction.)
> >
> > Weird. He tried that, and here's what happened:
> >
> > "The file size did not change.
> > Also, when I duplicated the tracks, reversed them, and saved them, the
> > file size also didn't change.
> > To check my sanity, I looked at the property and the modification time
> > is changing."
> >
> > I've asked him if he could make a ZIP archive of the AUP3 and see what
> > size that is. That may give an indication of whether the extra size is
> > due to data in the database, or empty space. It may also reduce the
> > project to a manageable size to send to us.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
> > > Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 7:34 PM
> > > To: Audacity-Devel list <aud...@li...>
> > > Subject: [Audacity-devel] Huge AUP3 project issue
> > >
> > > We have a report on the forum of a 200MB project (expected size)
> having a
> > > saved file size of 1350MB.
> > >
> > > On opening the 1.35GB project and saving a backup copy of the project,
> the
> > > backup project file is under 200 MB, which is about right for the
> amount of
> > > audio in the project.
> > >
> > > The forum thread is here:
> > > https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=118141
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
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