I’m using windows 8.1 and haven’t had any issues before the upgrade. Unfortunately I can’t downgrade 8.1 its just built that way, I wish I was aware if that beforehand. So anyways the “Error writing auto-save” message is constantly showing up and as well sections of any stereo track I load in are missing on the right or left channel on any random part of the song. I’m not sure how to fix this or if there is a fix. I’ve checked my permissions, uninstalled, etc. Any help would be appreciated as this is actually kind of upsetting as I’ve been using audacity for years without any problems.
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Try File > Save Project As… and save somewhere you have permission to write to. That will delete the autosave file if one exists.
Open Computer and navigate to C:UsersAppDataRoamingAudacityAutoSave (go to the folder that has you actual name). That’s the folder Audacity is trying to write the autosave file to. Can you right-click > New > Text Document and create a file there? If so, then the autosave saving problem is an Audacity bug that is not understood. The best way to solve that is to reboot the computer.