Normally, I would run Apache / Perl (aka an offline development area) and have never had any probs. But now I am trying to create a 'standalone' that will work via PERL only.

First problem. The other day, I discovered that whilst I could read files, I couldn't write or append files using the 3 option version:

open my $fh, '>', 'path to windows folder';
write $fh 'This is a test';
close ($fh)

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Today, moved onto read/write directories. Again, eventually, was able to read a directory ... but no way will it create one: 

# $schoolName and $bar are set elsewhere, but basically 'AHS' and 'XYZ
+'
# hotBase is "D:/home/cristofa/public_html/'; 
  $pupilFolder=$schoolName.$bar;    # Create the pupil folder for late
+r offline use
    $dirPath=$hotBase.'pupils/'.$pupilFolder;
        if (-e $dirPath){
        print 'already made';
        }
        else{
    mkdir $dirPath,0777;
    print $dirPath;
    }

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But here's an interesting aside. When I use the same path to create it again ... it tells me it already exists even though directory is empty, (even DIR shows an empty folder)

This is being executed from CMD, and the version is 5.20.xx (Ran into problems trying to update Strawberry Perl

On Windows, all users / admin have full rights (it's only me) Although on folder properties, the box beside folders is shown blue. I have unhighlighted that, it runs through all the files in folder ... then directory is STILL shown as Read Only, (but that appears to be same on every other folder on PC)

** Just had a thought. I wonder if my Comodo firewall is preventing files being written out

In reply to Win7 cannot MKDIR or write by cristofayre

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