weird error message every time I export wav files

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justinrpg
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weird error message every time I export wav files

Post by justinrpg » Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:43 pm

I get this error message every time I try to export wav fines with Audacity now!!! I can't get it to stop!!! can anybody help me??? this is a VERY weird one!!! it is just random symbols!!!
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Re: weird error message every time I export wav files

Post by kozikowski » Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:47 pm

Punctuation marks in filenames can result is unusual and sometimes entertaining computer errors. The only two non-letter or number marks universally accepted are underscore and dash. A very common error is dates. Today is 20120728, not 7/28/12. If that graphic is your filename, you might try not using that apostrophe.

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Re: weird error message every time I export wav files

Post by justinrpg » Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:57 pm

MY FILENAME DOESN'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE CHARACTERS!!! I AM NAMING THE FILE: "321 go go go" THERE IS NO DATES OR SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN THAT FILENAME!!! ANY MORE BRIGHT IDEAS??????????
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Re: weird error message every time I export wav files

Post by kozikowski » Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:37 pm

YES. STOP SHOUTING!

Where were you trying to save the work? Try saving to the desktop instead of one of the Music folders.

I know this is an old joke, but have you restarted your computer?

You said "now." Did it used to work? Did Windows do a System update between the time it used to work and now? Did you do a Virus Update recently?

Does the folder you're trying to save to still exist?

We could send you to reinstall Audacity. It's a special process for this, you don't just trash the program files.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... html#reset

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Re: weird error message every time I export wav files

Post by PGA » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:29 pm

Clear the Metadata of all contents.
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Re: weird error message every time I export wav files

Post by justinrpg » Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:03 am

PGA wrote:Clear the Metadata of all contents.

that did the trick!!!
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Re: weird error message every time I export wav files

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:25 am

This is already fixed in 2.0.1. Upgrade here http://audacityteam.org/download/windows and then you should not need to remove the metadata to solve the issue.


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