Help, can't export

[Benny Brazil]

Hi there

I was hoping someone could give me some advice. Whenever I select the export records option in filemaker, it allows me to start to save the file as tab separated text, however the next message that appears after the save as box is as follows:-

"'export.tab' could not be created on this disk. Use a different name, make more room on the disk, unlock it or use a different disk".

I have tried a few times to save the export under a different file name but I've had no success. It can't be a memory problem, as whenever I go into another filemaker database, I can perform exports no problem, so it just seems to be a problem with this particular file.

With regards to unlocking the file, or using a different disk, I'm not very technically minded, so I'm a little unsure as to how to do this.

Does anyone have any advice as to what I'm doing wrong?

I'm using filemaker 7.0 for PC.

Thanks,

Benny

[IdealData]

This is possibly a file name problem, in that the file name is actually invalid.

If there really is a ' character at the end of the file name then there's a clue. Trailing spaces must also be avoided.

[bcooney]

Are you adding the extension yourself? Don't.

Do you have permissions to the folder that you are exporting to?

[mr_vodka]

Do you happen to have that tab file open in an app like Excel?