ok here's the deal
I'm editing file "A", under "effects", like automatic gain control
and after a cpl minutes of processing, the file that is processed
is not only a completely different file say file "z" , but also the speed changed on it!!!!!!
and it is playing at chipmunk speed, so I must reduce it by 50% before I can Identify the file, which is NOT the file I was working on!!!!
I had no other files open or minimized while doing this normally simple operation to the file.
I've done this operation hundreds of times without any weirdness like this at all.
The only thing that wavepad seemed to do on a semi-regular basis, was freeze up during saving a file where I had to close wavepad
and then reboot it and obviously reopen the file I was working on.
there are two other oddities that may be related...one was an unusual amount of HD space was being used up [ this is recent too ]
and I also got an odd warning about "unauthorized to use a temp file" on the screen that I though was odd. then later [ I figure wavepad uses a temp file in case you wish to "undo" ]
So there must be something screwy with the tempfile messing with the HD size [ a 15mb file was using up 4G of HD space!!! ]
So, I deleted wavepad and reinstalled it and it still screws things up.
I defragged the drive etc and rebooted
about the only thing I CAN do, it to delete advertisements off of radio programs
but using the automatic gain control and the dynamic range compression, which I found quite useful, can no longer be used....:-(
I may have to SAVE all my stuff and do a recovery[ reinstall factory settings ] back to new condition
:-(
....I hate vista....
