Error: Disk full or not writable

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

1. Disk is full
2. Size occupancy

Disk is full

You get the following error message when you are trying to write to disk that is full or if the disk of file is write-protected (ir you do not have sufficient privileges to access it).

File:Disk-full error.png

This can be

• Save Project
• Export
• Import
• Applying effects
• Editing

Salvaging your project

The project will probably be intact but will need to Save it somehow

You have a number of possible options to do this.

Free up space on the disk

• free up some space on the disk you are working on
  • Windows: just delete files and or folders
  • Mac: delete files and or folders and purge them from the Wastebasket. (If you do not purge them from the Wastebasket the space will not actually be freed up.)
  • Linux: ...

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.

Save to a different, bigger, disk

• Save or Export to a different disk with sufficient space
  • You still may need to free up some space on the original disk for this to work
  • You may need to delete residual AUP3, SHM and WAL files ...

Copy the project files to a bigger disk

• Copy AUP3, WAL (and SHM on Windows) files to another disk and open from there

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.

Size occupancy

TBP - One hour of stereo recording at default settings (44.1kHz 32-bit) occupies 1,2 GB of disk space