and no - this is not a joke.
Well the problem is there when I try to copy a file from my c: drive to a network drive using "windows explorer" on WinXP.
To be precise the "network drive" is a "web folder". It is based on WSS (windows sharepoint services) by Microsoft - the tool that enables sharing (it is more or less a share drive with a web interface), but it is meant to be accessible directly as well.
The way it works OK is if you open it up through "my network places" and if you add it in there as a web folder. That way it allows you to copy and paste files from there, however if you open up this drive as a "network drive" on your system - ie give it a "letter" and map it, the drive ceases to function in the normal way and you cannot paste files on it, you can read and copy from it though, but when you try to send filed there there comes the lovely error message. Cannot copy file<> The file exists. :smile: (this might be some kind of meaning of life message from Microsoft, along the lines " You cannot copy file therefore the file exists, you cannot copy so you exist too")
So anyone has any other ideas about the error message, what it means, and how to avoid it if possible
-- our friend Google was not too kind to help me dechiper this secret so I am coming here with the quest...
Well the problem is there when I try to copy a file from my c: drive to a network drive using "windows explorer" on WinXP.
To be precise the "network drive" is a "web folder". It is based on WSS (windows sharepoint services) by Microsoft - the tool that enables sharing (it is more or less a share drive with a web interface), but it is meant to be accessible directly as well.
The way it works OK is if you open it up through "my network places" and if you add it in there as a web folder. That way it allows you to copy and paste files from there, however if you open up this drive as a "network drive" on your system - ie give it a "letter" and map it, the drive ceases to function in the normal way and you cannot paste files on it, you can read and copy from it though, but when you try to send filed there there comes the lovely error message. Cannot copy file<> The file exists. :smile: (this might be some kind of meaning of life message from Microsoft, along the lines " You cannot copy file therefore the file exists, you cannot copy so you exist too")
So anyone has any other ideas about the error message, what it means, and how to avoid it if possible
-- our friend Google was not too kind to help me dechiper this secret so I am coming here with the quest...
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