Re: [Audacity-devel] strange behavior

[Cliff <fly...@gm...>]

Federico,

If you want a new project then open a new/2nd Audacity window. The way you did it was to keep all the undo info etc like you surmised. It was doing the expected things so no problem with the program. Opening a second window would have given you a fresh start on the new project.

Regards,
Cliff

> On Aug 24, 2022, at 20:27, Federico Miyara <fm...@fc...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> May be I'm doing something wrong. 
> 
> I have a two-track 2 min project. I saved it and not only it took several minutes but it createed a 6 Gb file.
> 
> Previously, I had loaded a 1.5 Gb wav file (2.5 hours long) and had been working for a while with it. The process I performed was to resample from 44.1 kHz to 22.05 Hz, convert from stereo to mono and export the audio to flac. Then I deleted the track and started with a completely new, single empty track, without closing the earlier project. 
> 
> While working, the original file name kept showing at the top bar. When I was done with the second project, I "saved as" it to a new name and directory, and I got the 6 Gb file.
> 
> The expected behavior would have been to save into the new project the current status of the audio, i.e., a two-track, two-minute signal... unless all the garbage and undo history is also saved to the project...
> 
> But what is more perplexing is that then I tried to save it again without changing the original name (which by the way never changed, as it happens with other programs when one saves a file with a different name) and then bingo! I got a much more reasonable 22 Mb file.
>  
> Then I exited Audacity and the 6 Gb shrinked down to 22 Mb! Pity that I didn't copy it prior to exiting!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Federico
> 
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