Error message

[internet]

When saving, i get "could not save project. perhaps track title isn't writable of the disk is full", which it definately aint.

What to do?

[billw58]

What name were you trying to use?

-- Bill

[internet]

If you mean name of artist/song, its layla - gotta find love, from around 1995/6, its only a recording i made off the radio.

[billw58]

OK, let's back up a bit.

What version of Audacity, what computer and operating system?

What name were you trying to use the save the project (or were you trying to export)?

Lots of characters are illegal in Audacity filenames.

-- Bill

[internet]

Version - 1.3.10-beta
computer - acer 3200 vista
save as - layla - gotta find love
Is there a list of illegal characters?

[kozikowski]

There's a list of legal ones. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, underscore and dash. That's it. I have to push files all over the world with sometimes odd tools, so I don't use spaces, either.

NateVoice20100102.wav

If you're going to get killed, it's always a date. Slashmarks are insanely evil.

Koz

[internet]

Its working fine again.

[waxcylinder]

I have been getting this error message occasionally (on 1.3.9) where the filename is entirely "legal" characters. It seems to clear itself up the next time I try and save - and is one of those "incidents" which is not reproducible to order - so hard to identify as a bug or not.

I will try to take better notes of what happened and the circumstances next time.

WC

[Gale Andrews]

Version - 1.3.10-beta
computer - acer 3200 vista
save as - layla - gotta find love
Is there a list of illegal characters?

I want to stress yet again that saving or exporting with other than A-Z, numbers, underscore and dash characters should NOT be a problem in current Beta if you are keeping these projects/files to yourself or only sending them to people on the same operating system as yourself. Depending on whether you are doing Save, Export or Export Multiple, you will either be warned of any characters you enter that are illegal for your system, or Audacity will refuse to export.

Internet, I suspect the problem was nothing to do with file names. It could have been a temporary writing problem because the system was busy, or anything... If it happens again, please let us know and give us as much detail about the circumstances, and details of the tracks in the project. Also see this thread:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 655#p66655

I'm moving this thread to the Windows Beta Forum. Please post in the correct forum for your operating system and version of Audacity.

Thanks

Gale