Trying to save a pictureBox image to a file, sometimes getting an exception thrown.

[Roger C Garrett in Hawaii]

I'm trying to save a pictureBox image out to a file and sometimes am getting an exception thrown.

If I do this:

pictureBox1.Image.Save("image", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);

it works just fine.

If I do this:

pictureBox1.Image.Save("C:image", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);

it also works fine.

But if I try to specify a particular subdirectory, like this:


pictureBox1.Image.Save("C:\Pictures\image", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);


it fails, throwing a generic exception.

Even if I just put a slash after the C:, like this


pictureBox1.Image.Save("C:\image", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);


it throws a generic exception.

What am I doing wrong?

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