# Ca't open file to write when saving tags **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cat-open-file-to-write-when-saving-tags/54011 **Category:** Support **Created:** [August 9, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cat-open-file-to-write-when-saving-tags/54011 "2021-08-09T12:25:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover) #### Post date: [August 9, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cat-open-file-to-write-when-saving-tags/54011/2 "2021-08-09T12:43:38Z")
Do you save your files on your local internal harddrive or SSD? Do you save it to a remote NAS over your network? Maybe this topics can help you: > [@Paste error, cannot open file for writing](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/paste-error-cannot-open-file-for-writing/53815): > > [image] > [@Cannot open file for writing](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-open-file-for-writing/48104): > > When assigning from Discogs in Win10. Saving WMA, which may be part of the problem. But what's funny is that if I say "yes" to continue to each file in the directory, it works. They don't show until I select any one file, and then every other file. Then they have all been opened and saved after all. Pain in the butt, but an effective workaround. What's also funny is that they save fine later when changing filenames from tags (ALT-1). Hope this helps someone else who is having this problem. > [@"File Cannot Be Opened For Writing"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-cannot-be-opened-for-writing/12416): > > I'm having trouble tagging a specific album. I usually use this program (because it's the best there is) but with this album I've tried other programs and none of them are able to tag them. It's an album of .FLAC files but when I press "Save Tag" it says "This file cannot be opened for writing". I've checked permissions and I'm the owner with Full Control - this is just boggling my mind. Has anyone seen this before? If so can you please advise? > [@Flac file error](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-file-error/51984): > > Good Afternoon I hope you can help? I've used MP3tag for a while without issues. I was recently trying to add album art to a FLAC file. For an unknown reason it was taking an unusually long time and not completing the task so I decided to abort. When you now try and access this file through MP3tag, all the metadata has disappeared. When I try and add the metadata, an error occurs, it says the file "cannot be opened for writing". When I look at the file in Explorer, there has been a .tmp file c… Summary: > [@File could not be written](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-could-not-be-written/44918/2): > > Here is a thread that deals with the problem: One of the following is often the cause: insufficient access rights insufficient ownership simultaneous access blocks files corrupt files. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cat-open-file-to-write-when-saving-tags/54011)._