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

> For something like this, I think security permissions has to be the
> first suspicion. If it was me I'd probably change the code to start
> logging the results when you try to access this directory, and at the
> same time log the identity that .NET thinks the request is being made
> from, to see if there's a pattern. I might also try accessing another
> directory (eg. the web root directory - surely you must have access to
> that :), or to a dummy directory to which Everyone has read access ) to
> see if the problem is directory-specific. (Actually, if you're going to
> log to a text file, you probably need a folder/file to which Everyone
> has write access anyway, so that you can successfully write the fail
> logs to it :-) )

Yeah, I think I'll add some tracing code so I can see what was different
when a failure occurred.

>If you are doing any multithreading, that may be important.

I actually have no idea - it's not my code.  It's the open source bug
tracking app called BugTracker.NET.  The developer has never had this
problem reported before.

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