Audacity Forum

I am recording a large number of records and generally I have no problems whatsoever. Well done Audicity. But it completely randomly at times a side of a record 'using the multiple export option' only records one or two tracks and than gives the above message or does not record the project at all when being exported to a hard disc.

This happens once in about every 20 records so not bad, but still annoying. Any idea how I can navigate around this?

Thanks,
Hans

I'm guessing that the error message should read "not able to open destination file for writing"
This could be because you do not have enough free disk space, or you are trying to write to a location that is not writeable for some other reason.

You are right for the translation of the error message. My translation was crappy having only the dutch text in front of me. The thing is that I have plenty of hard disk space and it only happens occasionally. The vast majority passes without issues. So I do not understand why in selected cases (which seem to happen randomly) it does not allow to record?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
hans

vanlieha wrote:The thing is that I have plenty of hard disk space and it only happens occasionally.

Are you aware that Audacity does not clear out it's "undo" files (temporary data files) until it closes?
If for example you record several albums in a row, and let's say that you record, normalise, remove clicks, run noise removal, apply a bit of Eq, then export, then repeat that for several more disks, recording at 48 kHz 32 bit stereo - you could be using around 10's of GB of disk space? Also, remember that Windows may decide to change its swap file size, which can also make sudden and dramatic changes to the available disk space.

For some reason, Your operating system is telling Audacity "No - you cannot write there". You need to check at that time, where Audacity is trying to write to, if there is enough space there, if you have permission to write there, or if there is some other reason that it is unwritable.