That is why we ultimately decided to remove the use of FAT/FAT32 use for UP-3.0.0 in order to protect the majority of our users - many of whom are not mega computer savvy. I found that even with relatively short projects, a 4-5 minute song say, and with several edits (which is not unusual for our users) I could soon exceed the 4GB drive space available for a single file and the project would halt with an out of drive space error. I did a LOT of QA testing on FAT/FAT32 drives when we were working on the development of Unitary Project, before we finally decided to block their use. There's also the issue that even modest sized projects can easily exceed 4 GB, which is an issue now that the project is a single file. Please reconsider this unnecessary imposition, this uncalled for limitation and let your users explicitly select any drive they want. ![]() I for example have my temporary folder on a ram drive and if Audacity won't let me use that, it becomes completely useless because I will not switch to a fixed drive only to worsen my user experience.Ĭhanging to a drive that makes Audacity 3 happy, doesn't have any benefit for my workflow whatsoever, only downsides because I never edit files that get anywhere close to 2gb let alone 4gb. It's of course fine if you set Audacity's temp folder to a non FAT drive by default and alert about FAT usage when necessary, but let your advanced users set whatever drive they want to use. It is the height of user unfriendliness to force a setting just to remove the chance of a predictable, preventable and rare issue to crop up. ![]() ![]() Please don't treat all your users as idiots who can't possibly be able to manage their own drive settings. I am well aware of the limitations of FAT drives, I've been working with them in an audio setting for long enough. I decided to test drive Audacity 3 to see what are the upcoming changes and I immediately bumped into a terrible change that makes it completely unusable for me.
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