Re: Error: "Target Designer was unable to clear the contents of the de

From: Doug G (nospam_at_frcnospam.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:15:41 -0500

I just had this happen myself today. It was apparently due to some exploring
that I had been doing in the previous image directories, and TD was
detecting that some application still had files open in the directory. I
couldn't find anything running that might be doing that, but logging off and
back on certainly cleared the condition and all went well.

The other thing to do is just to go to your image root directory folder and
manually delete everything in there from Windows Explorer. If Explorer also
tells you that it can't delete something, then if you have already tried the
logon or reboot trick, then you might have a protection/privilege issue.

  Doug G

"gkc" <gkc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E3331586-9A8E-4E0A-9E27-0FF91C47749F@microsoft.com...
> I have been getting this error message for 2 days now when trying to build
an
> image:
>
> Target Designer was unable to clear the contents of the destination folder
> that you have specified. Please check the permissions on these files.
>
> I have searched all over the internet and not been able to find any
answers.
> I have successfully built images in the past, but this just started
> happening yesterday. I have tried different folders, different
partitions,
> and even a network share but the message is consistent. I have tried
> everything I can possibly think of, and Im going crazy.
>
> Can anyone please HELP!!
>
> gkc

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