Audacity Forum

I do appreciate your help very much. Unfortunately or not it's a very simple production. There is only one monophonic track.

How many drives do you have and how full are they? I've been burned with this. One mounted but forgotten drive was almost full and created chaos in the machine, even though it wasn't being used for the show. Yes, I have one active (non-backup) hard drive, just checked again to be sure, df / reports...

Hi, sorry for the delay. The files are recorded on various devices, usually cell phones with some kind of tape recorder app, producing stereo mp3 files. I open them in Audacity, mix them down to mono and edit them down to particular segments to be exported as smaller, more compressed audio files. Ag...

P.S. I apologize that I can't share the specific files for debugging purposes. The project involves editing down a recorded classroom session, with discussion etc., into a smaller file that's just the main lecture. For privacy and other reasons, I can't share the files.

Ok, I opened a similar but not identical file, an ~88MB MP3, stereo, approximately 1.5 hours. Imported into Audacity successfully. Did not do any actual editing. Save project, again a "simple" file name in the Desktop directory ... same error.

$ df / reports
261999448 used, 222405624 available, 55% used.

$HOME is on the same root partition.

I followed your steps exactly, and was able to save the .aup file in ~/Desktop without any error. I did a little further troubleshooting: First, I exited the program and re-opened my-project.aup, everything worked as expected. Second, I exited he program again. Restarted the program with a blank/new...

Sorry for the ambiguity. I was not trying to save in /home/ itself, I was trying to save in a subdirectory of my home directory. I have the normal read and write permissions. Other programs that I run, e.g. a text editor, are able to create and write files in the directory in question.

Thanks, I did that already (just to be extra sure, I only used ASCII alphabet characters and no spaces.) Same problem persists.

Having trouble with Audacity 2.2.1 (and 2.2.0 before it) on Debian. I have over 200 GB available on the hard drive in question. Standard permissions on my home directory. I open an MP3 file to edit. Choose "Save Project" from the file menu, place the file somewhere in my home directory. I get the fo...