Error: Disk full or not writable
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This error message is informing you that the file you are trying to write to cannot be written, or ths dis or file may not be writable.
- Recording
- Exporting
- Editing
Contents
Disk is full
You need to either
- free up some space on the disk you are working on
- Save or Export to a different disk with sufficient space
- You may need to delete residual AUP3, SHM and WAL files ...
It is also possible the the disk or file you are trying to write to is write-protected or you have insufficient privileges to write there.
| Do not try to reduce space usage by deleting part of the project, this will only try to take up more temporary space on the disk. |
Size occupancy
TBP - One hour of stereo recording at default settings (44.1kHz 32-bit) occupies 1,2 GB of disk space