Audacity silently truncates export when disk full
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Audacity |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
audacity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: audacity
If there is insufficient disk space when exporting a project to WAV, Audacity will simply write as much as there is space available and report that the export was successful. It should instead inform the user that the export failed. This occurs more frequently than you might expect, because Audacity spews large amounts of data to /tmp/ to be able to "undo" edits.
In my particular case, I cannot open a ~800MB WAV file, normalize it, apply a 3dB amplification, and export back to same file despite having more than 25% of my disk (about 3.8GB) available.
Note: This is sort of a specific instance of bug #22842, but the defect is in the individual package, not distribution-wide.
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
audacity:
Installed: 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Related branches
Changed in audacity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in audacity (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → David Henningsson (diwic) |
status: | New → In Progress |
It makes sense, since the result of sf_writef_short / sf_writef_float is never checked in ExportPCM::Export in exportPCM.cpp. Assuming this bug is still present.