{"id":422,"date":"2012-08-25T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T11:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techsupport.relyonsoft.in\/?p=422"},"modified":"2013-11-11T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:22:24","slug":"error-1301-cannot-create-the-file-a-directory-with-this-name-already-exists-cancel-the-installation-and-try-installing-to-a-different-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/error-1301-cannot-create-the-file-a-directory-with-this-name-already-exists-cancel-the-installation-and-try-installing-to-a-different-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Error 1301: cannot create the file. A directory with this name already exists. Cancel the installation and try installing to a different location."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Error:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Error 1301 cannot create the file. A directory with this name already exists. Cancel the installation and try installing to a different location.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Error Message:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/techsupport.relyonsoft.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1301\" src=\"http:\/\/techsupport.relyonsoft.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Causes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A directory with the name already exists in the &#8220;C:\\Windows\\Downloaded Installations\\&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The logged on User may not have sufficent permission to install the software.<\/li>\n<li>Clean System &#8220;temp&#8221; folder.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Solution 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A directory with the same name may already exists. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 So Delete all folders in &#8220;C:\\Windows\\Downloaded Installations\\&#8221; and\u00a0Try to install it again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Try to install the software in different folder or drive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clean the contents system temporary folder<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start &gt; Run &gt; type temp<\/li>\n<li>Click enter and try to remove all the files and folders from the temp folder.<\/li>\n<li>Start &gt; Run &gt; type %temp%<\/li>\n<li>Click enter and try to remove all the files and folders from the %temp% folder<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Error: Error 1301 cannot create the file. A directory with this name already exists. Cancel the installation and try installing to a different location. Error Message: Causes: A directory with the name already exists in the &#8220;C:\\Windows\\Downloaded Installations\\&#8221; The logged on User may not have sufficent permission to install the software. Clean System &#8220;temp&#8221; folder. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relyonsoft.in\/techsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}