I have been using ExpressScribe version 4.05 for Mac for a while. It works fine, but there seems to be a bug: the program doesn't always remember where it left off. Sometimes it jumps off the file, and if I haven't made a bookmark, I have to find my place again, which is a nuisance.
So I installed the current version, and it was a nightmare. Loading files did not work smoothly. A file would slowly load, then the program would tell me it contained 0 bytes. There was no place under Control to set up the foot pedal. The audio began when I pressed the pedal, but it continued after I took my foot off the pedal. In Preferences, I unchecked the option for the bubble to appear each time I loaded a file, but it still kept appearing. I decided all these problems weren't worth it, so I retrieved my old version and deleted the new one.
I am relatively new to the Mac. Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something stupid? I'm using Mac OX 10.5.6 (Leopard).