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From: 0rrodrig@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Russ Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can't create subdirectory
Keywords: subdirectory
Message-ID: <26250@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 23 Dec 88 23:28:45 GMT
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Mr. mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP Writes:

>... Now we find that we cannot create another subdirectory
>(message 'cannot create directory').  Someone else who uses this
>machine has a total of 31 subdirectories in the root and has also
>156 files in the root directory!!!(I would never do this)...  

Check very carefully to see if a FILE (yes, I said FILE) exists in this
directory by the same name as the directory you are trying to create.  It
might exist as a hidden file.  In either case,  by renaming this file you
will probably be able to create this directory, after which you can rename
the file back to whatever it was.

-- 
Russell Rodriguez
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