I seem to have a lot of problems creating files, both using ‘save as’ and when rendering. FWIW these have carried over from the time I was using Windows 7.
Basically I get an error messages as per the attached screenshot.
I can then normally get around this by drastically truncating the file name, but that is obviously a very clumsy solution .
Is there a proper solution for this, or alternatively can somebody please provide a set of guidelines for acceptable file names?
I don’t see any illegal file name characters for Windows, and you mention truncating file names, so it looks like you exceed the full file path limit of 260 (IIRC) in Windows. Instead of truncating the file name, you better rethink your directory structure and use less deep paths.
Good point about the stupid 260 char full path limit in Windows. However, it wasn’t that, at least not directly.
First of all I tried to measure the path I had been using and it was well within the 260 char limit.
But then I tried to save the name directly under C:\ and I got a different error message (see below) that seems to indicate Wavelab is making some sort of weird filename translation.
Your temporary file is set to C:
which is a path under reduced access rights. You should change the temp path to seomething else, like
C:\Temp
Do this from WaveLab > Options > Folders
It doesn’t matter what directory I try to write it to; nothing seems to work, and I get the error message first posted (without the alphanumeric stuff).
Not sure if Wavelab uses that or has its own conversion library built in, or even whether any of that could be having any kind of impact; just keep to sort this out!
You don’t need to have any flac package installed.
Please show me the message you get when writing a file that is not in C:
What is the full source file name and desired output file name?