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It is in fact perfectly true that you cannot create a folder named "CON", nor can you rename an existing folder to "CON". However, there is no mystery surrounding this restriction whatsoever. The "team" at Microsoft, and a great many others besides, know perfectly well why you cannot name a folder "CON". "CON" and a number of other character strings are in fact reserved names that go back to the days of DOS and cannot be used to name folders or files. Other reserved names are

Try to create

PRN

AUX

NUL

LPT1

COM1

Potential drive letter - A: to Z:
A number of others

 

[dumira j]

mmm have seen this B4

 

[ak1ak1ak1]

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEpost

 

[yasasrd]

ai maraine.....

 

[amiya]

Mama Hadana

con kiyala folder ekak

 

[lahirufx]

Dmens

kohomada sinier member kkenek wenne

 

[King SMF]

Elakiri

ela kolla niyama para

 

[King SMF]

Good Explanation

thank you for the information

It is in fact perfectly true that you cannot create a folder named "CON", nor can you rename an existing folder to "CON". However, there is no mystery surrounding this restriction whatsoever. The "team" at Microsoft, and a great many others besides, know perfectly well why you cannot name a folder "CON". "CON" and a number of other character strings are in fact reserved names that go back to the days of DOS and cannot be used to name folders or files. Other reserved names are

Try to create

PRN

AUX

NUL

LPT1

COM1

Potential drive letter - A: to Z:
A number of others

 

[nrjayasinghe]

Repost machan.. kamak ne.. Thanks...

 

[wazeemkhan]

nice machooooo

 

[Danurp]

really cool
tnx 4 sharing ayye...........

 

[hamish]

maru ne

 

[northtech]

nice !

 

[ruwanfer]

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