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Windows 10. Have the most recent version of audacity.

Have a new project. Tried saving the project or "save as" new project with no success. Tried exporting project with no success.

Same error message:

"File not found.
Check the file name and try again"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

newsleader wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 6:01 pm

Have the most recent version of audacity.

The current version is Audacity 2.4.2. Is that the version that you have? (Look in "Help menu > About Audacity")

newsleader wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 6:01 pm

Tried saving the project or "save as" new project with no success.

"File menu > Save Project > Save Project..."

newsleader wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 6:01 pm

Tried saving the project or "save as" new project with no success. Tried exporting project with no success.

Also, see here: viewtopic.php?t=103590

You can get that error if you use punctuation marks in your filename. Piano/Music may look like a normal filename to you, but to the computer, that looks like you want to save a file in a folder called Music. If a Music folder doesn't exist, the export or save will fail.

If you need dates, use the ISO version. Today is 2021-01-02. No slash marks.

You may use -dash- and _underscore_ characters.

Windows has an additional restriction. You can't use any of the legacy names, either: COM, LPT, etc.

Koz

Yes, I have the latest version. I downloaded it today.

I don't have any punctuation in my file name. It's just "proposal".

Any other ideas?

Got it! It was Windows Defender.
viewtopic.php?t=103590


Thank you for all your help!

newsleader wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:27 pm

Got it! It was Windows Defender.

Thank you for posting the solution.

You are welcome