Delete Silence button not working at all...Help?

Report · Jan 02, 2021

Please help as this was a very time-sensitive project due yesterday...

I used to be able to easily tighten up my audios by deleting all the silent pauses and dropouts, but now the Delete All button doesn't work after I did the update. What is going on? The Scan worked for the long silent pauses- just the Delete button doesn't work (it just does nothing when I click Delete), and now even when I scan for short digital dropouts, nothing comes up there either when usually I would see multiple.

What can I do??

Report · Jan 02, 2021

UPDATE: I was able to get the Short Digital Dropouts Scan to work (485 problems detected), and the Delete All button "seemed" to work but gets stuck. After 5 mins. or so, the entire Adobe Audition says "Not responding." I tried again and now it all worked! I'm grateful it now worked, though I've done nothing different. Anyone know why it gets stuck or sometimes doesn't work?

Report · Jan 02, 2021

I'm assuming that this is a PC. Usually when Audition gets stuck it's because the Operating System has decided that what it wants to do is way more important than anything the user could possibly need to be getting on with. Anti-virus software scanning can cause it, as can WiFi signal searches. Or even something as simple as trying to access and resize the temp file space. And I expect that there are a lot of other things that can, too.

If you do a search, you'll find plenty of information around about optimising Windows for audio use. They generally say the same sorts of things, and it's generally worth working your way through them. It may not completely stop this happening, but it should at least reduce the instances. It's also well worth putting Audition's temp files in a location that isn't shared with the OS. Creating your own folder for them on the root drive of your system is generally the way to go.