Error "The file could not be written"

Hi!
'm tyring to export some pictures in lightroon but I receive the error "The file could not be written".
Any suggestion?
Thanks

Make sure you have permission to write to the output folder and that there is enough space on the disk.
What OS are you running?   What version of Lightroom?
Hal

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