On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 12:07, James Crook <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Stephane, > > > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 09:27, Stephane Ascoet < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> James Crook : >> > >> > >> > We are currently working towards Audacity 3.0.0. This will change the >> > project file format from 'pile of files' to a single file. In the past >> > many users were losing their audio because they did not realise that >> there >> > were many small files. This is a big change and is perhaps no surprise >> > that we still have some bugs to sort with it. We are hoping we will >> have >> > the updated .pot file with new strings to translate on 14th Nov. >> > >> > >> >> Hi, how would Audacity be as quick and responsive when editing audio >> then if it must rewrite an entire very big file for each change? > > > Audacity does not have to rewrite the entire file with each change. > Inside the file are 'pages' and Audacity only needs to update pages which > change. > > > >> And how will be managed FS file size limitations? > > > The disk filling up is already a problem with 'pile of files'. > > We expect to be better off when the FS 'says no' than we were before, and > to only lose the most recent changes that wouldn't fit. And to properly > alert the user to disk full. > > We are planning to have a space-meter for 3.0.1, as the disk filling up > has been a long standing problem. For 3.0.0 you will just get some > warnings when disk space is low, and Audacity will tell you when it can't > write any more. > > As to actual file size, the max file size on Windows-10/NTFS is 256 > Terabytes, which should be enough. > > > >> Will there be the choice in the preferences to stay with the the old way? >> > > No. We want to remove the problem of recordings getting broken by the > pile-of-file approach, so keeping it would be counter productive. > Audacity 3.0.0 is still able to open old projects (the old project is "imported"). When saving the project it will be saved in the new AUP3 single file format. Steve > > > If you've more questions, please ask on the forum or on the development > email list, as this email list is for translations. > > > --James. > > > >> >> -- >> Sincerely, Stephane Ascoet >> >> _______________________________________________ > Audacity-translation mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-translation >
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