Audacity Forum

Yes, that's why I typed "seeming last hope." The fact was, once I hit don't save, the game was over. Of course a developer is going to look at the larger picture, and I have said before, fixing the code so that the problem never happens in the first place is the best solution. But I don't know how h...

Can't you save the project by using Save Project As and giving it a new name? You forget that my Catch-22 was representing a particular perspective: that of the desperate new user who has been unduly prevented from saving her work. The error message says nothing about a problem with the file name, ...

Thanks to everyone for the abounding insights. I was somewhat upset when I started this thread, and that probably showed, but the fact was, I had already solved the problems I myself had been having, and generated the two files I had wanted to send over the wires from raw materials I had long, long ...

Oh, there was another (final?) point I wanted to make. If, when all the experimentation is concluded, it turns out that the backslash is the only proscribed character for regular saving in Audacity on a Mac (other than the ones the system itself wouldn't allow), that would contradict the message I r...

Back in the days of yore I used to use forward slashes in my file names on early Macs all the time. The current systems will still open and read files with that character in their names, but prevent you from saving anew with them in place, proffering suggested alternatives. So I got in the habit of ...

No time for any experimenting now. Don't have exact recollection of the failed saves. The only verboten characters I might ever use would be backward slash: and text between a set of parentheses: (xxx). My apartment is getting new electrical wiring tomorrow, so I will be out of touch for a while. I'...

How can anyone blame the Mac OS for what happened, when I can turn around and save the file on my Mac with the same name (minus the .aup) as an AIFF? As I've said all along, this is an Audacity issue, and the error message is worse than nothing. For the record, I can read the Asian characters fine. ...

This is really silly. The leading lights wrote the code, or at least have access to it, and don't need us to tell them which characters are rejected when in Save mode. Billw58 has the same system I do, and since he seems to be more scientifically inclined, I'll let him do the experimentation if he's...

Diligently, I found one reference to forbidden characters nested somewhere in the forum. If I hadn't found that I would have trashed the program and never looked back. I'm sure countless users have done that already and we just never hear from them. I assumed this problem was universal, which is why...

After a lot of searching, I now learn that Audacity is unduly sensitive to the characters one uses to name one's project. Meanwhile I had been told that there was an error saving my projects, and as a result a lot of work went down the drain. The message basically says ...Perhaps your disk is full. ...