HiddenWebDAVFiles

Version 1 by Mark Edgar
on Jan 08, 2007 12:19.

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Current by Mark Edgar
on Jan 08, 2007 12:23.

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This issue has [helpdesk ticket 537906|https://helpdesk.riosalado.edu/admin/NewCalls/view.asp?id=537906].
Note that the original reported problem is in copying Visual Basic project directories via {nolink:WebDAV}. [the Windows XP WebDAV client|WindowsXPWebDAV]. Apparently, the .suo file in a VB project directory is marked with the hidden attribute by Visual Basic. This means that while IIS will report that the file exists in the response to a PROPFIND request on the file's parent directory, it will also report a 404 error in response to a GET request for the file. This, in turn, causes MRXDAV.SYS (the XP {nolink:WebDAV} client) to silently abort the directory copy operation. Whatever files have been successfully copied so far are copied, but any remaining files are not copied.

Listed below are several possible solutions listed in the order of (what I believe to be) the most appealing to least appealing: