Get error message when I use save as (Linux)

[Darvon]

Hi!

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and 1.3.13-alpha-Dec 9 2010. When I try to save a project, I get the same error message as described in the post in the windows forum ( http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 56&start=0 ): "Could not save project. Perhaps /... is not writeable or the disk is full." (in german)
The filename contained only lower case letters. I have over 80 GiB free space on my drive.
I saved it with the compression option, so I'm not lost, but as far as I understand, the first files will have a lower quality, when I save a few times.
When I open the compressed project, I still can't use "save as". The method of copying everything and opening a new project, and saving there does not work, I still get the error message.
So far this is everything I can think of, I guess

Darvon

[steve]

When I try to save a project, I get ....: "Could not save project. Perhaps /... is not writeable or the disk is full.

Where are you trying to save the project?

[Darvon]

/media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup

[Gale Andrews]

I've got the Audacity project you sent me a link for (http://www.sendspace.com/file/kgchxu) - the project itself "milton.aup" plays fine and can be saved as "m.aup" on Windows 7 in 1.3.13 using File > Save Project As. Not tried on Ubuntu yet (I have 10.10, not 9.10).

Can you provide a screenshot of the Save Project dialogue immediately before you click "Save" and it generates an error? If the error you quoted isn't the exact text, please also provide a screenshot of the error message or its exact text.

In case it is relevant, did you install your build and where are the build and its installed copy located?

Do you have write permissions for the folder you are writing to?

You can also try File > Export Multiple as WAV, quit and restart Audacity, import the six WAVs then try File > Save Project > m.aup.





Gale

[bgravato]

If you type the line below on a terminal console window does it complain about not having permission?

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touch /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup

If the command is successful and the file does not exist, it will create an empty file with that name (which you can safely remove).

If the file exists it won't damage it, it will just change the "last modified time" for that file.

If you don't have permission to create/modify that file it will complain with a "Permission denied" error message.

This is just to make sure you have permissions to write a file with that name on that folder.

[Darvon]

Hi!

Sorry for not responding that fast.
I've installed audacity via the daily ppa ( https://launchpad.net/~audacity-team/+archive/daily ).
This is the actual error message I get: "Projekt konnte nicht gespeichert werden. Vielleicht ist /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m
nicht schreibbar oder das Laufwerk ist voll."
I don't quite understand, what I should post a screenshot of. The moment before the error message appears? It would be just a picture of an open audacity window with my project in it, but tell me, when I'm wrong.
The command

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touch /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup

simply creates an empty file called m.aup, just as you said.

But I forgot to mention: When I try to save m.aup to /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup, it creates a folder, with another folder, with another folder and than a file in it. In the end it looks like
/media/Media/Aufnahmen/m_data/e00/d00/e0000d87.au
e0000d87.au is a 1 MB large file. /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup is not created, though, only this file in these folders. Perhaps this helps.

Darvon

[bgravato]

The command

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touch /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup

simply creates an empty file called m.aup, just as you said.

That means you have write permissions in that location (you can delete that empty m.aup file now, it only purpose was to test writing permissions).

But I forgot to mention: When I try to save m.aup to /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup, it creates a folder, with another folder, with another folder and than a file in it. In the end it looks like
/media/Media/Aufnahmen/m_data/e00/d00/e0000d87.au
e0000d87.au is a 1 MB large file. /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup is not created, though, only this file in these folders. Perhaps this helps.

An audacity project is made of 2 parts:
- a .aup file, which is just a text file containing information relative to the project data (this file does not contain any audio itself)
- a _data folder which has some subfolders and a bunch of 1MB .au files in it (this files are the actual audio data from your project)

Both parts (.aup file and _data folder) are necessary and they always should be kept together and you should not rename, move or delete any of them.

If you only got one .au file then it means something not working (the error message also indicates that ).
Do you have the same problem with the 1.3.12 version on the official ubuntu repository? Or does it only happen with that specific 1.3.13 snapshot?

[Gale Andrews]

I don't quite understand, what I should post a screenshot of. The moment before the error message appears? It would be just a picture of an open audacity window with my project in it, but tell me, when I'm wrong.

I mean when you click FIle > Save Project As, you see a window where you type the file name you want for the project. I was asking to see that window.

But I forgot to mention: When I try to save m.aup to /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup, it creates a folder, with another folder, with another folder and than a file in it. In the end it looks like
/media/Media/Aufnahmen/m_data/e00/d00/e0000d87.au
e0000d87.au is a 1 MB large file. /media/Media/Aufnahmen/m.aup is not created, though, only this file in these folders.

I opened your milton.aup project in Audacity SVN HEAD on Ubuntu 10.10 and saved it as m.aup correctly. The problem sounds similar to the one we fixed where silences in tracks were the cause, so I don't understand why you see this problem if those builds really are SVN HEAD. Are you sure you are using the correct ppa for 9.10 Karmic (1.3.12+svn201012100018+r6489-0~karmic1 )?

Did you export the tracks as WAV files, import into a new project and try saving that?



Gale

[Darvon]

I get the error message in version 1.3.9 , too. This is the one I get from Ubuntu. I installed the alpha, because in that other topic of the same problem in windows, I saw the advice to use the most recent nightly built version.

I have the ppa from the link above, which I found in the wiki in the article "Nightly Builds". I guess that must be the correct ppa. I updated now, so I have 1.3.13-alpha-Dec 13 2010 (which must be 1.3.12+svn201012130048+r6492-0~karmic1 ). The problem still occurs.

Here is the screenshot:

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Exporting the tracks as wave files doesn't help, the only difference is, that the error message doesn't occur immediately, a small window appears for a few seconds, showing a status bar of the saving process.

[bgravato]

What is the filesystem on the partition you're trying to write to? Is it NTFS? Or is it a linux partition? If it's not a linux partition, does the same problem also happen when saving to a folder in a linux partition?