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wsvperera

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  • Jan 7, 2007
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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

    folder-con.jpg
     

    King SMF

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  • Oct 17, 2007
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    Good Explanation

    thank you for the information:)



    wsvperera said:
    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

    folder-con.jpg