The Explorer View is an excellent feature that is integrated with windows SharePoint Services that allows a user to access a document library as if you were accessing a file system through a Windows Explorer window.
Being end users, everyone might feel that this is very easy to use. But there are multiple complex interactions happening with different technologies to make documents which are not present in file systems to viewable using explorer.
Problem Description:
While trying to cut and paste files or folders from one document library to another using windows explorer view, the following error message may occur:
“Cannot read from source file or disk”.
This issue cannot be reproducible in a Windows XP environment; however this can be reproducible in Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008 / Windows 2008 R2. Here are some Scenarios when you do cut and paste of files / folders:
- MOVE between sites collections in the same web application works with XP
- MOVE between sites collections not in the same web application works with Vista and 7
- MOVE between two mapped drives (using net use command where one connected to site col1, and the second one connected to site col2) works with Vista and 7 (within a same web application, or between two webs application)
Resolutions:
Two workarounds are available so select anyone as per the flexibility.
1: COPY and PASTE the required data; then DELETE the files instead of using CUT and PASTE.
2: Create two mapped drives using "net use" command. Then complete CUT/PASTE between the mapped drives.
If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. Thank you.
Being end users, everyone might feel that this is very easy to use. But there are multiple complex interactions happening with different technologies to make documents which are not present in file systems to viewable using explorer.
Problem Description:
While trying to cut and paste files or folders from one document library to another using windows explorer view, the following error message may occur:
“Cannot read from source file or disk”.
This issue cannot be reproducible in a Windows XP environment; however this can be reproducible in Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008 / Windows 2008 R2. Here are some Scenarios when you do cut and paste of files / folders:
- MOVE between sites collections in the same web application works with XP
- MOVE between sites collections not in the same web application works with Vista and 7
- MOVE between two mapped drives (using net use command where one connected to site col1, and the second one connected to site col2) works with Vista and 7 (within a same web application, or between two webs application)
Resolutions:
Two workarounds are available so select anyone as per the flexibility.
1: COPY and PASTE the required data; then DELETE the files instead of using CUT and PASTE.
2: Create two mapped drives using "net use" command. Then complete CUT/PASTE between the mapped drives.
If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. Thank you.
2 comments:
Use LongPathTool.com is very useful if you are having problems in deleting, unlocking,
copying and even renaming files that are considered filename too long by your system.
Use LongPathTool.com is very useful if you are having problems in deleting, unlocking,
copying and even renaming files that are considered filename too long by your system.
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