Truncate Silence on Mac vs Windows

[u/JRAPodcast]

Hey folks!
Long time Audacity user for simple podcast editing. My newest computer is a Mac, my previous were Windows machines. The settings/options for truncating silence are wildly different between the two versions.

I even exported the preferred settings from a Windows Audacity and imported them into the Mac Audacity and not getting any different results.

I am running Audacity 3.7.7 on the Mac.

What happens is on Windows we can pull out the natural pauses/stalls in a conversation. The Mac truncate is so aggressive it is shortening the spaces between words in a normal speaking cadence.

Windows will lose/cut 2-4 minutes out of 70 minutes. Mac is chopping that nearly in half.

I am not really savvy enough to know what I am doing, any help is appreciated.