# Recent problem with exporting to CSV

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recent-problem-with-exporting-to-csv/56617>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 7, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recent-problem-with-exporting-to-csv/56617 "2022-03-07T12:24:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mozartman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mozartman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mozartman)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recent-problem-with-exporting-to-csv/56617/1 "2022-03-07T12:24:48Z")

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Hi, this is my first post on this forum.

I had always been able to export mp3tag data into a CSV file until recently. Now, I get an error that the file cannot be opened for writing:

File "C:\Users\*_username_\*\documents\*_filename_\*.csv" cannot be opened for writing.

This is probably due to a recent update release.

Please advise.

Thank You.

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recent-problem-with-exporting-to-csv/56617/2 "2022-03-07T12:40:22Z")

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Can you post the actual file name and enclose it in backticks ```, e.g., ``my file name`` so that spaces and other special characters are preserved?

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recent-problem-with-exporting-to-csv/56617/3 "2022-03-07T12:40:47Z")

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Could it be that the folder name has leading space characters?

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**Author:** ![mozartman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mozartman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mozartman)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recent-problem-with-exporting-to-csv/56617/4 "2022-03-07T14:13:27Z")

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Thanks for your reply. It turned out to be a problem with my computer. Something was preventing any files that could be opened with notepad to be written to my users\documents folder. I did a system restore back to the end of February and everything works fine now.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recent-problem-with-exporting-to-csv/56617/5 "2022-04-06T14:13:28Z")

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