Re: [tlug] Editing Soud Files (WAV & MP3)

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 18/01/06, Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:23:07 +0900, "Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon"
> <ronfaxon@example.com> wrote:
>
> > I closed the program, but when I attempt to restart it, I get an
> > error message saying that it's already running.
>
> Look in audacity's temp workspace directory (default is ~/.audacity_temp
> IIRC, but you can `grep ^TempDir ~/.audacity`). There will be a file called
> audacity-lock-$username in there. rm it.

This is good advise if Audacity is not running but thinks it is.

To ensure that this is the case, run:

pgrep audacity

If it returns PIDs (PID == Process ID), you can kill them all by running:

pkill audacity

-Josh