I ran tool on the scenario that sparky made for me, and there were no errors, and it reported map created successfully. I thought yay, no problems for once, and then I saw that the file was not in my map folder. Noooooooo! So I thought, well, I must have messed up the scenario in some way. However, the same problem occurred when I ran tool on the tutorial scenario, with no file appearing in my maps folder.

Did you run all programs as administrator?

Awesome thank you!
Is there a way to save me this step in the future? I am an admin on the computer I used.

I do this on all HEK programs I use.
Right-click on your program, and select Properties.
Then click the Compatibility tab.
Make sure the box Run this program as an administrator is checked.
Click Apply and OK

That worked, thanks.