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anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
i know this is kind of way off topic, but i wonder if anyone here can answer this:
back when i installed the furthurnet app on my computer, it created a folder named ".furthur" (leading period, no quotes). i didn't like where it created it, so i made another one on my D drive with the same name. Now, when i recently tried to make another folder with a leading dot, my computer wouldn't let me do it. i'll type something like ".tourecooder" (again, no quotes) and i get an error message saying, "you must type a name." i can't rmember if there was a trick to it back when i did it with the furthur folder but i don't think so....So, does anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
I typed ".aaaa" on my WinXP SP2 machine and had no problem creating the directory.
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
My win2000 machine gave me the same error in windows explorer but I could do it from the command prompt no problem
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
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Wacky windows bug. Try a 3rd party file manager. No members have liked this post.
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
Or just use the command prompt like diggrd suggested The command for creating a directory is md (short for make directory I guess) so "md .something" does the job.
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\k>md .something C:\Documents and Settings\k>dir Volume in drive C is C-WinXP Volume Serial Number is A48D-90D5 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\k 09.02.2005 14:56 <DIR> . 09.02.2005 14:56 <DIR> .. 09.02.2005 14:56 <DIR> .something 08.02.2005 20:46 <DIR> Desktop 04.01.2005 13:48 <DIR> Favorites 24.01.2005 21:56 <DIR> My Documents 22.12.2004 22:31 <DIR> Start Menu 0 File(s) 0 bytes 7 Dir(s) 2 159 190 016 bytes free C:\Documents and Settings\k> No members have liked this post.
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
D'oh! DOS, yeah, i should have thought of trying that.
Thanks!
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
cmd.exe != DOS
Windows has stopped being a "part" of DOS several years ago. </nitpick> No members have liked this post.
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
I want to make a directory called "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead" (without the quotes of course) but it seems that because I put spaces there it made a folder for each individual word. So I did it without the spaces and figured I could just edit it later, and the ... worked find before the spaces, but after I tried to add them, it said "you must type a file name". Is there anyway to get around this?
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
Command prompt is your friend.
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C:\Documents and Settings\k>md "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead" C:\Documents and Settings\k>dir Volume in drive C is C-WinXP Volume Serial Number is A48D-90D5 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\k 10.02.2005 01:34 <DIR> . 10.02.2005 01:34 <DIR> .. 10.02.2005 01:34 <DIR> ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 09.02.2005 14:56 <DIR> .something 08.02.2005 20:46 <DIR> Desktop 04.01.2005 13:48 <DIR> Favorites 24.01.2005 21:56 <DIR> My Documents 22.12.2004 22:31 <DIR> Start Menu 0 File(s) 0 bytes 8 Dir(s) 1 326 686 208 bytes free C:\Documents and Settings\k> No members have liked this post.
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Re: anyone know how to name a folder with a leading dot?
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Sorry, I am not familiar with doing things via the command prompt so I did not know I needed quotes to make it all one. But thank you. No members have liked this post.
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