Microsoft KB Archive/111547

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ID: Q111547

The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Delta for Windows, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS
When creating or joining a project, you may receive the following error message:

Error: Can't complete the current operation because of a problem reading or writing to temporary files. This may be caused by lack of disk space (either locally or on the server) or a network problem. Check for disk space, then retry the command again.

CAUSE
This error may be caused by a space in either the machine name or the share/server name. For example, a machine name of "MY OFFICE" will cause Delta to generate this error.

RESOLUTION
The only solution is to change the space to an underscore or remove the space from the name.

MORE INFORMATION
Although this may appear to be a bug, it is not. When Delta creates the various .MVM files in the [share or server]\ \STAT\ directory, it first creates a temporary file. It then attempts to rename that file to STATUS.MVM. However, if the share name has a space in it, the renaming will fail. Using "MY SHARE" as a share/server name, the command would look something like this:

rename \\MY SHARE\ABCDEFG \\MY SHARE\LOG.MVM ^                 ^ As you can see, this is invalid by MS-DOS standards. When renaming files, both the source and destination paths must be contiguous. The only space allowed is the one separating the two paths. Additional reference words: 1.00 KBCategory: kbusage kbprb KBSubcategory: Delta
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