Can't Export

[emilymeyers]

When I try to export an audacity project as a WAV file, an error message comes up saying:

Cannot export audio to /Volumes/Audacity 1.3.13/Audacity/firsttry.wav

The same thing happens when I tried to export it as an MP3 file (and I have already downloaded the Lame encoder for MP3 exporting).

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[kozikowski]

You are way into the critical system folders. I'm not shocked that the Mac wouldn't let you put music files there. Something else doesn't make sense. Do you have a disk drive called 'Audacity 1.3.13'? 'Volumes' is a mount point for your disk drives. It shouldn't have applications in there.

File > Export > Pick 'Desktop' from the scrolling list at left > Save. The music file will pop up on your desktop and you can move it from there.

Koz

[emilymeyers]

ah yes it worked, thanks a lot!!

[LATexan]

Same problem using OSX.5.8, only after saving the project to the desktop, what then? At some point you have to save it as a WAV file, right? And I get the same "Cannot export to Volumes/Audacity/1.3.1.3"

[steve]

Same problem using OSX.5.8, only after saving the project to the desktop, what then? At some point you have to save it as a WAV file, right? And I get the same "Cannot export to Volumes/Audacity/1.3.1.3"

Export it somewhere that you can write. Where do you normally put your music files? (not in "Volumes/Audacity/1.3.1.3")

[billw58]

It looks like you are trying to save to the disk image (.dmg) that the Audacity program is distributed in. Please read the installation instructiosn for Audacity, do not run Audacity from the .dmg, and by all means don't save to the .dmg.

Installation instrucitons:
1. Double-click the downloaded .dmg to mount it
2. Then to install Audacity, copy the "Audacity" folder from the newly mounted .dmg to /Applications or any other location of your choosing.

-- Bill