On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:18:25AM -0300, marcelo Cortez wrote: > Paul > > Thanks for your time. > the installer log say: > > fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Archivos > de programa/PostgreSQL/8.2/data ... ok > creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create > directory "C:/Archivos de programa": File exists > initdb: removing contents of data directory > "C:/Archivos de programa/PostgreSQL/8.2/data" > > note path is truncated in message ??? > file not exists i delete directory > one more time thanks This sounds like a permissions problem on either c:\ or c:\archivos de programa. Note that the account must have specific permissions there *not* granted through the user of Administrators or Power Users, because those permissions are given up before it tries to access them. //Magnus