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Posted: **Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:10 am**

I'm trying to join several waves and when I paste a wave to another I get an error that states:

Failed to copy the file " to [path of file]' (error 3: the system cannot find the patch specified.)

The waves are just a few minutes long each. I have 16GB of HDD space free and 2GB of RAM (1.33GB PF usage), so it doesn't seem like those are the culprits. It seems I can join one clip, export to wave, close out of all Audacity windows, and then open the clip I just saved and then add one more clip, and repeat or else I get the error. What can be done to fix this?

Posted: **Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:30 pm**

"Patch specified," or "Path specified?"

Do your clips have dates or punctuation marks in the names? Mom's Storytime 3/5/09.wav can kill you. Change to safe filenames. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, dash and underscore only. No other characters.

Mom-Storytime_20090305.wav

Koz

Posted: **Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:07 pm**

No dates or punctuation marks. But, I have seem to found a way around it by exporting the clip and then opening it again with Audacity and finally copying and pasting. Don't know why, but it seems to work....

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