[grc] More mysteries in Audacity

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org
Sun Mar 29 10:56:38 PDT 2020


       What version of Audacity?


       I'm using Audacity 2.3.2 on Catalina 10.15.4;  the current 
version of Audacity is 2.3.3.  I'm not a heavy user, but I haven't 
noticed substantive problems recently.


       Spencer Graves


On 2020-03-29 12:07, Ann Garrison via grc wrote:
> First, if anyone learns that it's been updated to work with Mac OS
> Catalina, please let me know. I'm opening the old version from the
> terminal, by typing or pasting this in:
> open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity
>
> In the meantime, can anyone tell me how to undo an envelope if creating it
> wasn't the last thing you did. (In which case you can go to "Edit" in the
> menu bar and choosing "Undo Envelope."  I have been accidentally creating
> envelopes without knowing how. It doesn't seem to matter unless I further
> manipulate the envelope, but it's annoying.  I may not have this problem
> again, because I've now figured out that I can select "Undo Envelope" under
> edit when I accidentally create an envelope by scrolling over the icon with
> the line through it:
> [image: image.png]
>
> However, I still wonder whether there's a way to undo it even if creating
> it is not the last thing you did.
>
> The majority of problems I have with Audacity and computers in general
> occur when I accidentally trigger some action and then can't figure out how
> to undo it. This problem was named "featuritist"—more features than anyone
> can use and quite a few one can trip over—when it first appeared.
>
>
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