"Could not save project. Perhaps C:\Music\...

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After spending several hours working on a project today, I tried to save my project, but initially got the “white screen of death,” followed by this error message:

“Could not save project. Perhaps C:MusicRewind Rhythm Track is not writeable or the disk is full.”


Multiple attempts to “Save As” resulted in the same error message. I then changed the filename several times, again using the “Save As” option, but every attempt to save my project ended with the “Could not save project. Perhaps C:MusicRewind Rhythm Track is not writeable or the disk is full.” error message.

Thinking that Audacity might be in some sort of a semi-crash mode, I closed the program and then reopened it. I then searched all of the locations where I had tried to “Save” and “Save As” my project. I actually found the appropriately named .aup folders in all of the places where I had tried to save my project. However, ALL of these folders were empty (no data…). I also could not find any .aup.bak files anywhere on my computer.

Very frustating waste of several hours today, and it looks like I will have to start all over again next weekend.

Any diagnosis or advice would be much appreciated.


Thank you/ Rob Wascher

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What was the Audacity version? What was the exact filename you used? Did you use punctuation marks in the filename? Dates are particularly troublesome. Today is 2013-11-03, or 20131103 not 11/3/13.

Koz

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According to the post, “C:MusicRewind Rhythm Track” was the folder path.


Gale

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So you said “no” when Audacity asked you if you wanted to save changes?

There is no “.aup folder”. There is an one .aup file and one _data folder (of the same name) per project. For example, song.aup and song_data.

It might have been an idea to do an export as WAV. Did you try that?

Only long-obsolete versions of Audacity save or recognise AUP.BAK files. Please make sure you are using the latest Audacity version from http://audacityteam.org/download/windows .

Here are all the characters you cannot use in Windows when saving a file name:

  /  :  *  ?  "  <  >  |

Gale