File error when rendering audio on finished project

Hi gang
When I go to render the audio before exporting, I get a file error message about 1 minute into the render that sez: "File error: specified file is open and in use by this or another application". I don't have any other projects open and I trashed my FCP prefs thinking it might fix the problem but same message appears again.
Any ideas?
thanks in advance

Pierpaolo Ferlaino wrote:
A common cause is spotlight...
Go to system preferences > spotlight > privacy
and tell spotlight not to search your fcp scratch...
If spotlight is indexing (that is a background operation) it is using your file... just not allow spotlight to use your fcp scratch and you should not have this kind of problem in future...
I'd mark it helpful if I could. I've been having the same problem and got tired of "babysitting" my computer while I did a mixdown on long sequences. I just had a 10-minute audio render, and it gave me the error message 3 times. I found this reply and made the prefs changes and it finished just fine (unattended).
Thanks again,
Grant

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