Windows Movie Maker saving problem

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Squirrel93

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Hi. I've been trying to create a short video for a school project, which contains video clips downloaded from Youtube. I downloaded them as .flv files, then got a program to convert them to .avi so I could use them in Movie Maker.
Now when I'm done and want to publish the file, however, it gets to about 66% and then says something corresponding to "Windows cannot save the movie to the specified location". Then it asks me to make sure the source files are still intact and in the right place. They are. This makes it impossible for me to publish the file and complete my project. Any help will be highly appreciated. A google search gave me nothing, all problems regarding this issue seem to be unique.

Also, most of the time, Movie Maker won't even open up when I double-click the program or a project. This is rather annoying as well.

I use Movie Maker 2.6 on a Windows 7 laptop. I like it a lot better than the new Windows Live Movie Maker, where they've changed pretty much everything.
 
Make sure you have enough space where you are saving the video and make sure you close the original files before encoding.
 
I tried saving it to a USB stick with plenty of room (4 gB, while the file is only 30 MB), but to no avail. It got to 64%, then gave the same message. None of the original files are open or running during the save process.

EDIT: I seem to have solved it by dividing the project into smaller parts and saving them one by one, putting them together in the same project later. This made it easier to find the corrupt files. Thanks for your attention!
 
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I had something very similar happen to me when I was using Fireview Media, from windows 7, earlier this year. It seems that during the rendering of the a video around 8 minutes in total length, my system froze and gave a long error code. In the end, it was because I only had 15GB free on the hard drive during the rendering process. I cleared some data so that I was left with around 50GB on the main drive and it worked. Hope that helps :D
 
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