Testing on W10 with audacity-2.3.3-alpha-252-88dc11f525215cea57f7a89b0038fc7d40a50149

Despite it's lowly (current P5) status I really thgink it should be fixed.

Even on my fast SSD machine it looks as though Audacity has stalled:
a) you get the spinning "busy" icon
b) pressing more buttons gets the pale/whited Auudacity window until the Format reset completes

P5 -> P3 Spinning beach ball with no explanation is not good.

This is still the case (10 years on) on W10 with Audacity 3.0.0 06877a7

I've just been bitten by this IRL when testing Bug #2538

Not only does the header say:
>Audacity (mot responding)

I also get the Blue-Circle-OF-Death while Audacity is silently churning away - this is just not acceptable (wearing QA hat).

Accordingly I have upgraded this grizzly ol'timer to P2 and removed it's enhancement status.

I've just been bitten by this IRL when testing Bug #2538

Not only does the header say:
>Audacity (mot responding)

I also get the Blue-Circle-OF-Death while Audacity is silently churning away - this is just not acceptable (wearing QA hat).

Accordingly I have upgraded this grizzly ol'timer to P2 and removed it's enhancement status.

A contributor has offered a fix in a pull request https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/647

I reviewed the request and contributor made changes in response.

I recommend merging it.

Fixed at
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/a10a1b81aa9c42c42716fee10ae8a424905dd71d
thanks to contributor binarywisdom

Tested on W10 with Audacity 3.0.0 a10a1b8

I now get a good progress dialog at Step 4

Tested on macOS 10.15.6 Catalina with Audacity 3.0.0 a10a1b8

Just as on Windows I now get a good progress dialog at Step 4

Good to see one of our oldest extant bugs fixed