error occured while writing toolpath to file ...

[DizzyG]

A project I'm working on keeps giving me an "error occured while writing toolpath to file ..." message says to "Check that the file is not read only," (it's a new file as I've deleted all old .ngc files) "is not open in another application," (no other applications are using it), and "there is sufficient disk space available" ( there's over 930Gb available AND I've tried a different drive). Anyone have any ideas before I reload software?

Thanks, Eric

[adze_cnc]

I expect that it is the "\" in the file nam. Try "_" instead.

[DizzyG]

Nice catch, unfortunately that was not the fix, although it led me to the fix. I'm sure the "\" did not help but I had to remove the inch ( " ) punctuation from the file name also.

Thank you, your suggestion led me down the path to get it fixed.

Eric

[robsandstrom]

Someone getting error message while trying to output toolpaths....any ideas

VCarve Desktop - Error occurred while writing to path to File …..

C:\Users\Owner\OneDrive\Documents\VCare Designs\Profile 2-OCBS – Leafs - 1 – 1 – 2025_Leafs-profile 2-Boom \ Shield_1-Profile 3.tap" ( Depending on which one the tool path I was trying to get")

[Rcnewcomb]

The mix of em bar (–) and hyphen (-) characters can sometimes be problematic.

For General Reference
In Windows the forbidden printable ASCII characters are:
< (less than)
> (greater than)
: (colon - sometimes works, but is actually NTFS Alternate Data Streams)
" (double quote)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backslash)
| (vertical bar or pipe)
? (question mark)
* (asterisk)

Non-printable characters: 0-31 (ASCII control characters)

The following filenames are reserved:
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL
COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9
LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9

Filenames cannot end in a space or dot.

There are an infinite number of names composed only of valid characters that are forbidden. For example, spaces and dots are valid filename characters, but names composed only of those characters are forbidden.

[adze_cnc]

There are three em dashes in this sample (the - following Leafs is not):

OCBS – Leafs - 1 – 1 – 2025