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"Brian Dessent" <brian AT dessent DOT net> wrote in message news:4162B3E8 DOT A3E4E9B AT dessent DOT net... > Dave Miles wrote: > > > > Since re-starting the system and repeating the copy on drive O: (the > > > newly created NTFS partition that 'cp' worked in) the "magically created > > > directory" now appears when using 'cp'. > > > > So I tried to re-format it and was denied. On investigation > > it turned out that Norton System Works had protection enabled > > on this drive. I disabled it and 'cp' now works again. Also > > if you check the exclusions on a drive that Norton is > > protecting you'll see that '\temp' is excluded. > > > > So for me at least disabling Norton Protection on a folder > > or drive that I intend to use Cygwin on is the way to go. > > Thanks for the resolution, for the archives' sake. > > The moral of the story is "Expect illogical issues to crop up if you run > invasive programs that install low-level hooks all throughout various > system APIs." > > Brian > Agreed! Although I'm pretty sure that prior releases of Cygwin have co-existed with Mr Norton quite happily. Did the original poster have Norton enabled? Anyone else care to comment? Cheerio, Dave Miles -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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