> Does anybody know why?

Yep, I’ve seen this and it’s the weirdest thing. This happened to me in Vegas 4. Notice your error message says: “C:\Progra~1\Sony\Vegas” but the real directory name is “Vegas 5.0”! What’s happening here is for some reason, Windows did not assign a short name (i.e., 8.3) to your Vegas 5.0 directory. The way you can check this is to open a command prompt in the “C:\Progra~1\Sony” directory. Then issue a “DIR /X” command to show a directory with 8.3 names: Here is what mine looked like for Vegas 4.

Directory of D:\Program Files\Sonic Foundry



04/26/2004  09:15 PM    <DIR>                 .

04/26/2004  09:15 PM    <DIR>                 ..

04/07/2004  06:53 PM    <DIR>    ACID4~1.0    ACID 4.0

05/19/2004  12:56 AM    <DIR>    BATCHC~1.0   Batch Converter 5.0

01/06/2004  04:49 PM    <DIR>    DVDARC~1.0   DVD Architect 1.0

04/07/2004  06:11 PM    <DIR>    SHARED~1     Shared Plug-Ins

04/29/2004  06:42 PM    <DIR>    SOUNDF~1.0   Sound Forge 5.0

05/18/2004  08:17 AM    <DIR>    VEGAS4~1.0   Vegas 4.0

04/10/2004  09:20 PM    <DIR>                 Vegas 4.0-bad

04/02/2004  08:30 AM    <DIR>    VIDEOF~1.0   VideoFactory 2.0

Notice I have a directory called “Vegas 4.0-bad: which doesn’t have an 8.3 entry to the left! That was my original Vegas 4.0 directory that I renamed to Vegas 4.0-bad and then created a new Vegas 4.0 directory and moved all my files into it from the bad directory into the good one. The error message went away. I have no idea how you assign an 8.3 filename manually otherwise I would have done that but creating the directory from the command prompt created an 8.3 filename and fixed the problem.

See... I told you it was weird. ;-)

~jr