# luxor on windows 10 - "The system cannot find the file FileIO.filename"

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/luxor-on-windows-10-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-fileio-filename/16996>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/luxor-on-windows-10-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-fileio-filename/16996 "2018-10-31T07:04:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bevan\_Broun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@Bevan\_Broun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Bevan_Broun)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/luxor-on-windows-10-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-fileio-filename/16996/1 "2018-10-31T07:04:38Z")

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Hi All

Im using julia 1.01 on windows 10. When I look at the luxor tutorial, the first example and others, I get error from windows about not being able to find “file FileIO.filename”  
I suspect this is a windows issue. The same code in Jupyter works.

So: when I run the code below I get pop up windows saying “… cant find FileIO.filename” followed by text.

```julia
julia> using Luxor

julia> @png begin
           text("Hello world")
           circle(Point(0, 0), 200, :stroke)
       end
The system cannot find the file FileIO.filename.
ERROR: failed process: Process(`'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' /c start FileIO.filename`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(::String, ::Base.Process, ::String, ::Int64, ::String) at .\error.jl:42
 [2] pipeline_error at .\process.jl:705 [inlined]
 [3] #run#504(::Bool, ::Function, ::Cmd) at .\process.jl:663
 [4] run at .\process.jl:661 [inlined]
 [5] preview() at C:\Users\Bevan\.julia\packages\Luxor\uf78H\src\drawings.jl:290
 [6] top-level scope at REPL[2]:3
 [7] top-level scope at C:\Users\Bevan\.julia\packages\Luxor\uf78H\src\drawings.jl:377

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**Author:** ![musm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/musm/32/3675_2.png) [@musm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/musm)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/luxor-on-windows-10-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-fileio-filename/16996/2 "2018-10-31T07:06:27Z")

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Looks like the interpolation of the filename is incorrect

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**Author:** ![Bevan\_Broun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@Bevan\_Broun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Bevan_Broun)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/luxor-on-windows-10-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-fileio-filename/16996/3 "2018-10-31T20:44:46Z")

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Ok, so the files are being produced and if I replace “FileIO.filename” with the actual file name the command works. So it looks to me like a bug in Luxor on windows 10.

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**Author:** ![musm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/musm/32/3675_2.png) [@musm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/musm)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/luxor-on-windows-10-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-fileio-filename/16996/4 "2018-10-31T20:51:39Z")

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BTW I just installed luxor on windows and it works for me fine.

Maybe you need to update your packages…

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**Author:** ![Mattriks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mattriks/32/351_2.png) [@Mattriks](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mattriks)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/luxor-on-windows-10-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-fileio-filename/16996/5 "2018-10-31T22:05:25Z")

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Another graphics package is Compose.jl:  
[http://giovineitalia.github.io/Compose.jl/latest/gallery/forms.html](http://giovineitalia.github.io/Compose.jl/latest/gallery/forms.html)