# error creating a directory

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 28, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270 "2020-06-28T17:49:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270/1 "2020-06-28T17:49:50Z")

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**Author:** ![Tej-Singh-Rana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tej-Singh-Rana](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tej-Singh-Rana)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270/2 "2020-06-28T18:03:04Z")

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You have to use → path: C:\temp

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270/3 "2020-06-28T18:29:33Z")

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is it the Capital C?

just tied and same error

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**Author:** ![OM\_Nachiketa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3da27b/32.png) [@OM\_Nachiketa](https://forum.ansible.com/u/OM_Nachiketa)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270/4 "2020-06-29T03:15:17Z")

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Run the playbook with the administrator access or grant required access to “adm-tkw” to create dir under C:\.

And as per the example on[win\_file ansible doc](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_file_module.html#examples) its Temp, not temp.

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**Author:** ![ZillaYT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4da419/32.png) [@ZillaYT](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ZillaYT)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270/5 "2021-06-22T01:38:15Z")

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Try c:\temp as path, like this

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**Author:** ![Rahul\_Puli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Rahul\_Puli](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rahul_Puli)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-a-directory/33270/6 "2021-06-24T15:15:15Z")

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Can you try the one below?