Can't create file

[Phil Davis]

A few months ago I had an intermittent file creation problem related to 
the HD spinning down after a certain period of idle time. I corrected it 
by first (before trying to save) getting the 'detailed files' in the 
target directory. That forced the HD to spin up and then the write would 
succeed. That was on XP but the principle still applies.

Don't know if your symptom could have a similar cause, but I thought it 
was worth sharing.

Phil Davis



J. Landman Gay wrote:
> I have a client with a problem I can't figure out, and am hoping someone 
> here may know the answer.
> 
> A standalone creates a text file in the same folder as the application. 
> This works fine almost all the time on all platforms. However, very 
> rarely, we get an error message on Win98 "can't open that file". If the 
> handler is repeated immediately, the file does get created. This has 
> happened only twice out of hundreds of successful attempts. The machine 
> is not networked, so no one else could have had the file open.
> 
> The script basically just calculates a file path, then does "open file 
> <path> for write". That's when the error occurs.
> 
> Anyone know what would cause this failure, which corrects itself on a 
> second attempt? We have only seen it on Win98.
>