# IJulia notebook() yields notebook that cannot save/export files

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**Category:** Jupyter-Notebook\
**Created:** [January 14, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-notebook-yields-notebook-that-cannot-save-export-files/135062 "2026-01-14T17:51:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![JM\_Beckers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jm_beckers/32/22482_2.png) [@JM\_Beckers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JM_Beckers)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-notebook-yields-notebook-that-cannot-save-export-files/135062/1 "2026-01-14T17:51:48Z")

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I have a fresh installation on a new windows computer, latest Julia version available via juliaup

```julia-auto
Julia Version 1.12.4
Commit 01a2eadb04 (2026-01-06 16:56 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 20 × Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 255HX
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-18.1.7 (ORCJIT, arrowlake-s)
  GC: Built with stock GC
Threads: 1 default, 1 interactive, 1 GC (on 20 virtual cores)

```

I installed IJulia and launched notebook(). That worked and version 7.5.1 of Jupyter works as expected, EXCEPT that I cannot save files from the `file-> save and export Notebook as`. The following error message appears

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/5/b522e19e5da14bfbbf4ef6fd3f646eb6e268f8eb.png)

The notebook is “trusted” and I disabled Firefox extensions.  
Same problem when I switch to Jupyterlab in the browser.  
Any idea what kind of test I could do to solve the problem ?

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**Author:** ![John\_Gibson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/john_gibson/32/5321_2.png) [@John\_Gibson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/John_Gibson)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-notebook-yields-notebook-that-cannot-save-export-files/135062/2 "2026-01-14T18:56:10Z")

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What directory (folder) are you attempting to save the notebook to, and do you have write permission there? Running `pwd()` in the notebook will tell you where you’re trying to write.

Try `notebook(dir="somepath")` where “somepath” specifies a folder you know you can write to.

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**Author:** ![JM\_Beckers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jm_beckers/32/22482_2.png) [@JM\_Beckers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JM_Beckers)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-notebook-yields-notebook-that-cannot-save-export-files/135062/3 "2026-01-14T19:05:07Z")

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Good suggestion. `pwd()` points to a directory where I can write (a subdirectory of my user directory) and I’m also using Administrator rights for the moment and I succeeded to write files with `println`. So probably something else is causing the problem.

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**Author:** ![JM\_Beckers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jm_beckers/32/22482_2.png) [@JM\_Beckers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JM_Beckers)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 7:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-notebook-yields-notebook-that-cannot-save-export-files/135062/4 "2026-01-15T07:50:06Z")

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The problem disappears when I use Google Chrome as default browser instead of Firefox.