Back to Home

The Problem

Have you ever needed to create a .npmrc file or another file or folder that starts with a dot and hit an issue when you tried it in Windows Explorer?

If you’ve tried it, you will see this infuriating error in Windows Exlporer You must type a file name.;

You’ve probably given up at that point and resorted to doing it through the command line.

The Solution

Well there’s an easy way round it, add a dot at the end, so .npmrc becomes .npmrc.. Windows Explorer then automatically removes the dot at the end and you are good to go.

Simple when you know how!

Back to Home