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<concept id="GUID-EF4423F9-05A5-5DD5-BDB6-C7D8F7901396" xml:lang="en"><title>How
to create directories</title><shortdesc>This topic describes how to create directories.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p>To create a new directory, use <xref href="GUID-E263C747-946F-35AA-9F1D-41833BD350FC.dita#GUID-E263C747-946F-35AA-9F1D-41833BD350FC/GUID-46EE9026-841B-35FC-8083-9847AAA64AAE"><apiname>RFs::MkDir()</apiname></xref>. </p>
<codeblock id="GUID-AEE6AE25-E339-5BDC-BEF9-3134C6C55A40" xml:space="preserve">_LIT(KNewDir,"\\FileServerExample\\NewDir\\");
User::LeaveIfError(fsSession.MkDir(KNewDir));</codeblock>
<section id="GUID-4FC1743A-CC4D-4F3C-A9C6-46F13E3FCBB1"><note><ul>
<li id="GUID-A8E0B5AD-DE50-547F-BE28-0EE7C2600AE9"><p>When a file or directory
name is passed as an argument to <codeph>MkDir()</codeph>, if either or both
of the drive letter or parent directory is omitted, the missing component
will be taken from the <keyword>session                 path</keyword>. Here,
the drive letter is taken from the session path. </p> </li>
<li id="GUID-E90A2909-0A04-5034-A322-C3540C8C753C"><p>In most directory-related
functions in class <xref href="GUID-E263C747-946F-35AA-9F1D-41833BD350FC.dita"><apiname>RFs</apiname></xref>, including <codeph>MkDir()</codeph>,
if a file is specified at the end of the path, it will be ignored. Therefore,
a backslash should be included after the final directory name in order to
indicate that it is a directory. </p> </li>
</ul></note> </section>
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