Re: Intermittent Incorrect Result on System.IO.Directory.Exists

Is this intranet or Internet?

John Warner




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> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brady Kelly
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 3:50 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Intermittent Incorrect Result 
> on System.IO.Directory.Exists
> 
> 
> Peter: 
> > Is the intermittentness dependant on the user using the system?  If 
> > there's any sort of impersonation going on there the user context 
> > calling Exists may not have rights to the directory in question. 
> > Viewing that directory in Explorer would be with a different user 
> > context an explain why it "clearly exists", yet Exists() 
> returns false 
> > in the web app.
> 
> It returns false intermittently in the web app with no 
> observably changed variables.  The number of browsers open 
> seems to have an effect, but it is not identifiable as a 
> fixed set of conditions.  I logged on once, and it was 
> working.  Within the same session, it suddenly stopped 
> working.  Then I opened a new session, and it didn't work at 
> all.  Then, I opened a debug session on IIS from VS, and it 
> worked.  Then I opened a new browser session, and that 
> worked, and then starting another debugging session in VS 
> gave the error.  I changed nothing except opening and closing 
> sessions.
> 
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