# Cannot write file
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347 "2025-12-15T14:12:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@AskayumiNiko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AskayumiNiko)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/1 "2025-12-15T14:12:37Z")
So this error happened when I tried to add cover for my song like usual, and this message suddenly pop up and now I cant change anything even the title. All of my song is in mp3 type and just happened recently. I tried to used foobar2000 to see if there any errors in the files but it come up fine. I also used lockhunter to see if any application are locking the file but the only thing there is window explorer, which i think isn’t really the problem. I’m not really a tech guy so this have been very irritating. If somebody has any clues or solution, it would be much appreciate 🙏 (sorry for my bad English if the wording in this post is confusing)
P/s: I have tried using foobar2000 to add cover instead but it come up saying “access denied” so must be related somehow
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/2 "2025-12-15T14:19:14Z")
> [@AskayumiNiko](#):
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> so must be related somehow
If other programs also have problems with the file, I would assume that the file is corrupt somehow.
Please see here for further ideas to check files:
> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/4 "2025-12-15T14:29:32Z")
Is saw the use of foobar - but apparently it does not help: even though this check says the file is ok, it does not behave like that is OK. So I recommend that you at least install mp3diags and let it scan the file.
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### Author:  [@AskayumiNiko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AskayumiNiko)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/5 "2025-12-15T14:30:04Z")
i check the file with foobar2000 and it came out fine
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/6 "2025-12-15T14:44:20Z")
Is "admin" your regular user account and are you logged in in this account?
Did you try to change the tags of this files with foobar and did it work?
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### Author:  [@AskayumiNiko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AskayumiNiko)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/7 "2025-12-15T14:54:23Z")
I just check and it were sign in as my username and not “admin”. Before this i also used this account to edit tag and it went just fine.
I try to attach a front cover into it but it just the file is access denied
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### Author:  [@AskayumiNiko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AskayumiNiko)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/8 "2025-12-15T14:55:53Z")
this appear when i select the file that have song to scan. Anyway to fix this ?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/9 "2025-12-15T14:58:49Z")
Looks to me like you have a general problem with access rights in your environment.
Please take care that you install the programs with the same user with which you want to use it.
The same applies to files that should be modified: you have to take care that the current user has full access, preferably is also the owner.
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### Author:  [@AskayumiNiko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AskayumiNiko)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/10 "2025-12-15T15:15:10Z")
FINALLY ! THANK YOU SO MUCH ! The problem is that somehow my user wasn’t given the full control for mp3tag. So i change it and now its working properly again. Again tks for the help 🙏
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-write-file/70347/11 "2026-01-14T15:16:00Z")
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