problem saving audacity tracks

[audacityred]

Hello. I am using the current version of audacity with windows 7. I finished a project and I then successfully exported it as an mp3. However, I wanted to save all the work I did on the audacity tracks. So, I clicked "save project as" then I typed in where I want to save it. I clicked ok but I continually get a message that says "could not save track perhaps L:/audacity music tracks/hold on baby audacity track is not writeable or disk is full". Please note that hold on baby is just the name of the song I was working on. Then, after I get that message, when I look at the folder I created to see if anything was saved, all I save is something that says e00. I don't know what that is. Please help. I really enjoy audacity. Thank you.

[kozikowski]

Will the work save to your desktop?

Koz

[audacityred]

Thank you for your response. I just tried to "save project as" in my desktop, and I got the same message "could not save tracks". then it says the drive my c drive on my desktop (I have room) is full or the disk (which I am not using) is full. It also says the audacity track might not be writeable. Even when I use the two external drives I own (which have plenty of space), the same message is displayed and I cannot save the audacity tracks. the only thing that gets saved is data and e00. I don't know what either one means. Thank you.

[audacityred]

Koz: just to let you know - I not only fail to save when I click "save project as" but I tried clicking on "save project" and that fails too. The same message keeps appearing. Thank you.

[kozikowski]

gets saved is data and e00.

Audacity will not Save a sound file. When you save a Project, you are going to get an AUP file and a _DATA folder with the same name.

This is a project.



e00 is one of the files or folders inside the _DATA folder. You are not supposed to be inside that folder. The goal is to open a project by double-clicking the AUP file and it will open Audacity and tell it what to do with the contents of the __DATA folder.

Are you absolutely sure your show name is plain text with no punctuation marks? You have many of the symptoms of someone trying to put a date inside a filename.

the current version of audacity

Which is what?
Did you get it from here?

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

Maybe three minute musical cut? How many tracks top to bottom? Did you use labels and comments?

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

As Koz said, make sure you have Audacity 2.1.2 from http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows.

If you export your song as WAV then you can import the WAV into a new project and try to save that.


Gale