Hi Harry,

It's tricky to be sure without knowing how much space these
files are taking up on the floppy disk, but I'm certain
there are limitations manipulating files on floppy drives
under XP.  (I just can't find the relevant section in MS's
Knowledge Base)

As a work round, I would suggest copying the contents of the
floppy to a folder on your hard drive, and renaming them
there.  When you have done that, format another floppy disk,
and copy them back.

George.

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Sent: 27 August 2005 18:07
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Subject: [VICUG-L] cannot rename files on a floppy disk

Hi all,
Well folks, here's a duzy for ya, at least I don't know how
to solve it.
I'm running a Dell 8100 laptop using Windows XP home.
I'm using JFW.
I have 388 meg of ram on it.
Here's the problem.
I put in a floppy with 106 files on it, and I was able to
rename the 1st 3 files on it.  However, when I tried to
rename the 4th file and all after that, I get this message.
Error renaming file, cannot rename this file, the directory
or file cannot be created."
The problem is, the file is on the floppy already.
Now, I'll tell yall how I'm renaming these files, maybe I'm
doing it wrong?
step 1.  I hilight the file I want to rename step 2.  I
press alt for the file menu step 3.  I arrow down to rename
and press the letter m step 4.  the edit box for rename
comes up and I erase all of the old file name for example
the name was 0004 step 5.  I then type the new file name,
for example, phone bills.txt step 6.  Then I press enter and
I get that error message I just told you.
So, I only have 3 files renamed, and I'd like to rename the
other 103 files.
2 questions.
1.  What's the problem?
2.  How do I fix it so I can rename files on this floppy
disk?
thaks for any help you all can give.
Harry


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