making a directory

Nathan Bubis -

If by a PC, you mean you are using Windows as your OS use open up the powershell console instead of cmd console and that should get you going.

If you need more help getting started with the command line on Windows check out this crash course in the command line

Assuming your typing something like:

mkdir my_new_directory

That should be fine. Where are you trying to create the directory? If you are not sure what you're doing you want to try it out under the home directory. Because you have permission to do what you want under the home directory. To get to home do the following command at the terminal cd

Then type mkdir my_new_directory

If you need to make the directory but don't have permissions you can use : sudo mkdir my_new_directory Then enter your user password

Ah, well that's your problem. Using the DOS box is completely different from a POSIX based system like Linux, Unix or the Mac. Treehouse has a video where they explain this: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/programming/console-foundations/getting-started-with-the-console/introduction

Basically,the advice was you don't want to try UNIX commands on the PC. Now, if you want to make a directory on a PC it is md. ;-)

md my_new_directory

Rich

UAC is blocking you from making it, but without a popup message since it's the command line. Try to avoid creating folders in the program files or program files x86 directories. Instead just make a project folder right in C:. Things should work then.