20 February 2008

Files saved by Audacity

If your computer is running out of space, it could be because of all those Audacity data files that are adding up on your computer. They don't automatically delete when you finish your project and export as .wav or .mp3 (or whatever). You can find out where they are being saved by looking on the Edit pulldown menu for Preferences. The location is under the tab Directories. You can change it if you want to to a drive that has more room. If your computer has multiple users, I'm not sure yet if you have to change it for each individual log-on. The easiest way to delete them is by locating the Audacity project folder and deleting the entire folder. The files you exported will remain wherever you saved them (as long as you didn't save them in the project folder!)