# PRB: Delta and Reading or Writing to Temp Files

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]\<master root>\STAT\<project name> 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.

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