[grc] More mysteries in Audacity

[Eric Howland]

There must be a better way.  But if you grab the white markers that are
made by the envelope tool, you can slide them all the way off the end of
the track. At that point their effects disappear.  This works with my
current version, Linux 2.2.2, and the mac versions I used a few years ago.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:07 PM Ann Garrison via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
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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