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Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation....what is this?

Author
9 Jun 2005 8:34 PM
darrel
I've written a function that will upload a file. This sort of works. It
works sometimes, and then other times...namely when it tries to write to an
existing directory (but not always), I get this error:

     Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Googling seems to indicate that that's a pretty generic error. Is there any
way to find out more specifics as to what is causing this?

The specific line it appears to choke on is this:

     postedFile.SaveAs(savePath & strUploadFileName)

Again, it works sometimes, not others. Both times, it has the same string.
I'm stumped.

-Darrel

Author
10 Jun 2005 2:26 AM
Craig Deelsnyder
darrel wrote:
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> I've written a function that will upload a file. This sort of works. It
> works sometimes, and then other times...namely when it tries to write to an
> existing directory (but not always), I get this error:
>
>      Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
>
> Googling seems to indicate that that's a pretty generic error. Is there any
> way to find out more specifics as to what is causing this?
>
> The specific line it appears to choke on is this:
>
>      postedFile.SaveAs(savePath & strUploadFileName)
>
> Again, it works sometimes, not others. Both times, it has the same string.
> I'm stumped.
>
> -Darrel
>
>

Is it when the file already exists?  Perhaps it won't automatically
overwrite the file on the filesystem.....or make sure you the aspnet
account has Delete/Modify access in Windows to the target folder, as
creating a file is different permission than deleting/modifying.  dunno...

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Craig Deelsnyder
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET
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Author
10 Jun 2005 5:41 PM
darrel
> Is it when the file already exists?  Perhaps it won't automatically
> overwrite the file on the filesystem.....or make sure you the aspnet
> account has Delete/Modify access in Windows to the target folder, as
> creating a file is different permission than deleting/modifying.  dunno...

It's something like that. If the folder/directory exists it pukes with that
error. I'm guessing it is a permissions issue, but everything seems OK.

-Darrel

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