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Error - "Directory Is In Use" - Grant Rights
DocumentID: 605540
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:31:27 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Customers on a Novell network receive the error message "Directory Is In Use".

Another customer's computer locked on the opening WP screen when starting WP. Another user's computer locked when exiting WP. Solutions: Users will receive the message "Directory Is In Use" or experience locking problems if they do not have rights to the directory where WP tries to write and delete temporary .SET files.

The following circumstances will also cause problems:
1.      If temporary files with the user's initials already exist in the directory where WP tries to create them.
2.      If the /PS option in the environment file points to a directory in which the user does not have sufficient rights to create and delete files, the computer will lock when WP is entered or exited .
3.      If the user does not have sufficient rights to their home directory, .SET files cannot be created. On a Novell network, each user must have all rights, except Parental, for their home directory.

To remedy these problems, users either need to have additional rights granted or use the /D startup option to redirect the temporary files to a directory where the user has sufficient rights.

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