# Export cover producing syntax error
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-producing-syntax-error/9626
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 2, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-producing-syntax-error/9626 "2010-01-02T14:49:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@moley6knipe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/moley6knipe)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-producing-syntax-error/9626/1 "2010-01-02T14:49:38Z")
I'm sure this used to work, but I can't work out what I'm doing wrong!
An action containing....
Export cover to file
I:\Documents\Colin's Docs\My Music\CD cover scans\TEMP\temp
...wrongly produces a jpg in the dir containing the music files the action's being run on, and that jpg is entitled "[SYNTAX ERROR IN FORMATTING STRING]"
Can't see what I'm doing wrong! mp3tag 2.44e
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### Author:  [@moley6knipe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/moley6knipe)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-producing-syntax-error/9626/2 "2010-01-02T14:50:24Z")
By the way, that's a valid file path and isn't set read-only or anything like that.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-producing-syntax-error/9626/3 "2010-01-02T15:20:53Z")
Colin's must be Colin''s
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### Author:  [@moley6knipe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/moley6knipe)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-producing-syntax-error/9626/4 "2010-01-02T17:01:27Z")
there you go - my previous path didn't have any punctuation in it. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-producing-syntax-error/9626/5 "2026-02-09T12:22:03Z")