Unable to open target file

[rpscott02]

I'm a newbie to Audacity and hope to use this s/w to record sermons at my church. I'd like to be able to split the sermons into 5 minute tracks. I'm testing it out at home and when I try to export multiple feature I get a "unable to open target file" error. My sample file is just a recording of a song I have on my pc. I've been searching every forum I can find and thus far, I've saved the Lame file to my Windows/System folder, ensured no illegal characters are anywhere in the file, and split the sample track into labels. Not having any luck here. Any suggestions?

[kozikowski]

<<<no illegal characters are anywhere in the file,>>>

Hmmmm. That's what almost always gives this error. What are one or two filenames?

Koz

[steve]

What location (folder/directory) are you trying to Export to?
You have sufficient free disk space?

[rpscott02]

the labels are named "t1", "t2", "t3", etc. the life itself is named "multipletest". I'm trying to export to C:Program FilesAudacity just for this first test. I def have sufficient space, the track is only 2 min long. Just made this track for testing purposes so I'll know what to do when its gametime

[rpscott02]

ok, found the problem. i was trying to create a directory in the Export Location field that didn't already exist. This little gem from the wiki page enlightened me:

"In 1.2.x versions of Audacity you need to choose a directory that already exists - you cannot create a directory by typing its name in the Export Location box"

thanks for the help guys. i love (and hate) how its always something simple like this.