Should we be worried that you are restarting the machine all the time? Most Mac users have to be poked repeatedly with a stick to stop what they’re doing long enough to restart, sometimes over many months. I am at this point mostly interested in being able to keep Audacity in the dock and not having it become a question mark after every reboot.Īudacity will only stay in the dock only until I reboot the machine, I already know that using slashes in file names is not an advised practice but I have hundreds of projects that I have saved this way and would like to avoid renaming everything. I have tried adding and removing Audacity.app to the dock many times, and I am making sure that the dock icon is pointing to the right place and I still get a question mark after reboot.Īny advice would be greatly appreciated. The one singular problem that I have now is that Audacity will only stay in the dock only until I reboot the machine, at which point the Audacity icon becomes a question mark and nothing happens when I click on it. I can load my projects by double-clicking, I can have more than one project open at the same time in separate windows, I can export and all, even with my slash-containing file names and all that. All of the above problems seem to be gone, and everything seems to be running fine. I tried uninstalling Audacity completely again, and this time went back to 2.1.1. I ended up with all of the same problems. I next uninstalled Audacity completely and tried the 2.2.0 RC Version. The same applied to exporting projects as well. With Audacity already open, I was able to open my projects by using the “File, Open” method, but could not save again using the same file name, because of the slashes I assume. I couldn’t open any project by double clicking on it or I would just get a blank project. I initially installed Audacity 2.1.3 and ended up with all kinds of problems opening, saving, and exporting my projects due to my previous file naming format.

I recently replaced my MBP to a mid-2016 model with OSX 10.13 High Sierra.

I have never had any problems saving or exporting projects or using slashes in project filenames. I have always saved my projects as: “Name - YYYY/MM/DD Venue Name”. Version 2.1.0 is currently on that machine. For years I have used a Mid-2009 MPB that currently has OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 on it to make recordings using Audacity.

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