# Cannot save any animation file or a screenshot

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-save-any-animation-file-or-a-screenshot/9846
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 18, 2022, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-save-any-animation-file-or-a-screenshot/9846 "2022-06-18T08:59:07Z")
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### Author: ![Muhammed\_Eroglu](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/muhammed_eroglu/32/9427_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Eroglu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Muhammed_Eroglu)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-save-any-animation-file-or-a-screenshot/9846/1 "2022-06-18T08:59:07Z")

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Hi everyone.

I made a simulation using Fenics.After that i got an output as a .pvd file with 200 .vtu files .I opened that pvd file in Paraview and tried to save animation as .png files.It gives me an error like;

ERROR: In C:\glr\builds\paraview\paraview-ci\build\superbuild\paraview\src\VTK\IO\Image\vtkPNGWriter.cxx, line 254

vtkPNGWriter (0000026E9C2F8D90): Unable to open file C:/Users/HP/Desktop/fem\_odev/animation\_png/video\_part.0000.png

ERROR: In C:\glr\builds\paraview\paraview-ci\build\superbuild\paraview\src\VTK\IO\Image\vtkImageWriter.cxx, line 481

vtkPNGWriter (0000026E9C2F8D90): Ran out of disk space; deleting file(s) already written

I can’t even save a screenshot in Paraview,it gives me an error like this.  
I couldn’t find any solution for this.Could you please help me?

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### Author: ![Muhammed\_Eroglu](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/muhammed_eroglu/32/9427_2.png) [@Muhammed\_Eroglu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Muhammed_Eroglu)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-save-any-animation-file-or-a-screenshot/9846/2 "2022-06-18T20:38:33Z")

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It is solved.I changed to save directory to “C:/Users/HP” and it is solved.Still,i don’t understand why is the first directory that i tried didn’t work.

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### Author: ![jameil\_k](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jameil_k/32/9869_2.png) [@jameil\_k](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jameil_k)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-save-any-animation-file-or-a-screenshot/9846/3 "2023-06-15T09:59:10Z")

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This happens when you don’t have permission to write files in the target location or if the target folder doesn’t exist (Paraview doesn’t make new directories).