-w is a file test operator. It tests to see if the running script can write to the specified file. I suggested this because I suspect your export might have failed because it can't write to your output file, and is giving you a misleading error message.

If you've run this and the print statement ran then you could have a problem with file permissions, or just have a bad path. Although thinking about it, -w can only return true if your file already exists, so may not be useful to you.

try temporarily adding 

open TEST, ">>$savename" or
  print LOG "Couldn't open file for appending: $!\n";
close TEST;

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That's a better test to see if you've got permission problems, and any error will be logged.
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In reply to Re^3: Win32 OLE error 1403 by reasonablekeith
in thread Win32 OLE error 1403 by Nalina

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