yet another, folder name starting with "."

What gives?
I cannot create a folder call .anything
All it says is "You must type a filename".

This is killing me.
I am losing all weekend I need to be working.

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:19:59 -0800, "Chippy" <>
wrote:

>What gives?
>I cannot create a folder call .anything
>All it says is "You must type a filename".
>
>This is killing me.
>I am losing all weekend I need to be working.

I just did it, from an administrator command prompt, in Vista Home
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"Chippy" <> wrote:

>What gives?
>I cannot create a folder call .anything
>All it says is "You must type a filename".
>
>This is killing me.
>I am losing all weekend I need to be working.

Still trying to play around in Program Files??? A PROTECTED folder?

No, this folder was under my docs dir zwoom dweeb

"Snidley W." <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Chippy" <> wrote:
>
>>What gives?
>>I cannot create a folder call .anything
>>All it says is "You must type a filename".
>>
>>This is killing me.
>>I am losing all weekend I need to be working.
>
> Still trying to play around in Program Files??? A PROTECTED folder?

Yes, I figured it out, but quite a pain when your program needs folders like
this.
Thanks for replying, though.

"Eric Tiberius Duckman" <> wrote in message
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:19:59 -0800, "Chippy" <>
wrote:

>What gives?
>I cannot create a folder call .anything
>All it says is "You must type a filename".
>
>This is killing me.
>I am losing all weekend I need to be working.

I just did it, from an administrator command prompt, in Vista Home
Premium 32.
--
"...Amusing, yet not without a certain understated omniscience"