Target directory not writable for Adobe audition.

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August 1, 2020
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New to Adobe Audition.

Installed Adobe Audition on a Mac. Mac is new. Launched the program to edit the multitrack recording that I recorded. When the dialogue box opens to browse a folder to save the session in and click the ok button. Error message pops up saying the target directory is not writable. I'm using only the internal drive.

What's the fix?

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Iamaashutosh

Adobe Employee

In case anyone stumbles upon this,
Here's what to do.
Navigate to the Session templates folder on your Mac, outside Audition, at this location, /Users/Shared/Adobe/Audition/<version number>
Right-click on Session templates, select Get info and set the permissions to Read and Write for all the options, apply to enclosed items and be done.
This issue is due to the session templates' folder permission, not the location where you are saving the session.

I hope that helps.

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TheHidden5C2C

Participant

I have been experiencing the same problem and can't find any fix. Im on MacOS

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

The other thing to look at if it's templates that are causing problelms is to make sure that the directory specified in Preferences is actually the one with the templates in. The other thing you can try is to locate the templates outside of Audition, store them in a location of your choosing and set the path to that. If this works, incidentally, it proves conclusively that the problem is within your machine.

The other thing to note about templates is that it's possible to have them in more than one location - a new folder is set up every time a new version is installed - but the previous location remains. If you have templates stored in a previous location, to use them you have to alter the path in preferences, or move them to the new location. You can only have a single active location for any given installation, although you are at liberty to change that whenever you like.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

The thing I'd also add to the list of things to check - but I think this only applies to PC users - is to make sure that you have administrator rights as a user on your machine. This has helped several people with 'cannot access' issues.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Have you checked the permissions on the folder you're trying to save to? It's possible that you may need to reload the settings preferences in Audition. The easiest way to do this if you don't have anything else you are particularly wanting to keep in the way of settings on Audition is to restart it with the shift key held down, which will start over with a 'vanilla' set of everything.

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Neil5DDE

Participant

I've been having this problem as well, only seems to happen when I try a preset mulitrack template (podcast, rock band etc).

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