[solved] Save changes dialog pops up...

Since yesterday I have this tiny issue that the ‘save changes ?’ dialog pops up everytime I load another song or create a new one, even if I didn’t change anything to it.

It is only mildly annoying but anyways strange, because it wasn’t like that before. Even if i save and then open, the dialog pops… is there some item in the preferences i might have checked without realizing?

Have you installed any tools in Renoise lately? Something that could be interfering with the song data?

Do you have something else that might be taking control of Renoise’s transport, like ReWire or Jack?

well. might have been a false alarm. everything went back to normal after I turned it off and on again… (yes. sorry. :frowning: ) delete me

So I was about to open a new thread, but this thread already describes perfectly what I’m facing since round about half a year now. So it doesn’t matter what I do, everytime when I open or close anything in Renoise version 3.4.4. this pop up window “Do you want to save changes” pops up. Even if I just have started running Renoise and would like to open the disk browser to load a song. So in this case Renoise obviously asks me if I would like to save the template before I can open a xrns file via disk browser. I just have installed the tool “Paketti” by esaruoho a few days ago, but as I wrote the issue persists for half a year now (at least), and during that time I didn’t install anything new. It’s definitely not because of Paketti. There are two other tools installed, “Place Selected Notes Evenly” and “Native DSP Context Menu”, that’s it. It’s only in Renoise 3.4.4, in Renoise 3.4.3 and other versions this doesn’t happen. I’m on Windows 10. What could possibly cause this?

Check: Main Menu > Edit > Undo

Do you see anything listed there?

Any activity that caused Renoise to think that the song has changed should appear there as an undo event.

So that would be my first place to look and try to work backwards from there…

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Perfect, thanks. Indeed “ShuffleIsActive” is listed there even if I didn’t activate it. And if I deactivate shuffle, save as template and reopen the template (File/New Song), shuffle is activated again (and Renoise asks me if I would like to save changes in case I want to load a song). But why? There’s also no active pattern effect command that could be responsible for that.

ha, 2014 :smiley:
I can’t really remember if I did anything special back then. But I remember another bug that occassionally happened in the past. (completely unrelated, sometimes all shortcuts with alt and ctrl are gone), but that one (I think) occurs when renoise/windows crashes and I can repair it by deleting all init files and reinstalling. Do you have a custom startup file that could have been scrambled by a crash?

I’d definitely try a fresh install, perhaps in another location in case you haven’t tried that already.

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Yes, a fresh installation is probably the best to fix that. It’s weird and it’s only in 3.4.4. Thanks.

Edit:
I deinstalled and reinstalled Renoise 3.4.4, but the issue is still there. No big deal, but annoying.
Renoise 3.4.5 is about to get released soon, isn’t it? I’ll kick 3.4.4 immediately. :wink: