Audacity Forum

thx GAle- yes I had gathered it was a vista problem not an audacity one, plus a problem with me not knowing a lot about this stuff. Thx for all your advice, I'll try and work it out.

hello- thank you for this reply. Yes I have got Vista and a fairly early version of it- sigh! The thing is I can save the recording easily- and play it back on audacity, but I can't convert it to MP3 or anything else that would enable me to send it to someone else in a usable way. I tried to follow ...

When I try to convert Audacity recording to another format I get the message 'You don't have permission to save in this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission. I have downloaded LAME, but get no further than this message.