Index: C:/PROGRAMMING/java/eclipse/workspace/NutchTrunk/src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/LinkDb.java
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--- C:/PROGRAMMING/java/eclipse/workspace/NutchTrunk/src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/LinkDb.java	(revision 409176)
+++ C:/PROGRAMMING/java/eclipse/workspace/NutchTrunk/src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/LinkDb.java	(working copy)
@@ -267,8 +267,9 @@
     FileSystem fs = new JobClient(job).getFs();
     Path old = new Path(linkDb, "old");
     Path current = new Path(linkDb, CURRENT_NAME);
-    fs.delete(old);
-    fs.rename(current, old);
+    fs.delete(old);    
+    fs.rename(current, old);    
+    fs.mkdirs(linkDb);
     fs.rename(newLinkDb, current);
     fs.delete(old);
   }