Unable to export Wav file due to Libsndfile error message on Audacity

**Dhano** · 08-03-2012

Well I have installed Audacity 1.3.13 on Windows 7. Whenever I am trying to save exported wav file I am getting below mentioned error message.
‘Error while writing WAV (Microsoft) file (disk full?). Libsndfile says’
Previously I was not having any issue while exporting file. I could not get why above mentioned issue is happening. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance.

**Alfons** · 08-03-2012

After going through the problem of yours I am suspecting that you are running out of the hard disk space.
You should right click on Start and click on Explore.
After that right click on Local Drive C: and click on Properties and see the free disk space available.

**Gania** · 08-03-2012

I recommend below mentioned steps and tell me whether it was useful to you or not.

You should launch new Project Window.
Click on desire tack and select Waveform and simply press Home.
Copy the entire track and in second project window you have to create a new track.
Here click on empty waveform and paste the track over here.
Now close the original project and into second project click on File and go for Open Metadata editor.
Make sure that all the entries are empty. After that save the project into a different directory.
Once you have done you have to try to export the wav file.

**Abhiroopa** · 08-03-2012

If above mentioned solution does not working than try below mentioned solution.
Launch the project and choose all the track.

Now launch export dialog. You have to click on Export from File and you have to use any of WAV export options available to export wav file.

**Erakna** · 08-03-2012

Well Libsndfile is native exporter for WAV, AIFF and uncompressed files. It is used to check total number of audio samples written into the exported file matches against of total samples exported. In case Audacity is not able to complete export as it was running out of the disk space and you will get an error message saying that export operation was incomplete. I hope above mentioned information would be useful to get the root cause of the problem.

**JyotiT** · 10-03-2012

I think you have installed version of Audacity or libsndfile which are supposed to be slightly distorted. I hope you are aware of that libsndfile is built into Audacity hence you will require to download and install latest version of Audacity on your computer.