I have been using audacity for many years (thanks to the team for making this possible!!) and have created a very basic macro to normalize a file and export it as mp3. Having said this, the macro worked flawlessly for years.
I am currently using version 3.7.5 as AppImage and the macro fails with the error message
“Cannot proceed to export.
/home/username/Documents does not have write permissions.“
However, the error occurs only if the macro tries to access that path. If I manually work off the steps of the macro, it works fine. So audacity seems to have a write permission but not if the macro is running. Is that macro a different process that is not run by my user?
Related observations:
- The error is not limited to “export as mp3” as “export to FLAC” throws the same result.
- Whether I invoke the macro on the project or on a file/folder does not make a difference - the error is thrown in both scenarios.
- I am not sure why audacity tries to export to the path mentioned above. In former versions, the output was stored in a sub-folder of the project folder that was called macro-output. However I could not find where to change it, but it is probably not important anyway. By my guts I’d say that every path in my home directory would throw this error.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Regards,Bum