Daily Archives: July 7, 2005

on London bombings and blogging about it

Purely Personal

what can I say that would add to the sadness and anger about the bombings in London today. about the fact that every day we here “2 killed in bombing here” “10 killed in bombing there”. The numbers in London will increase as they dig deeper in to the tube system – injured and dead. It’s awful. I keep working but am obviously thinking about it. I noticed Kate’s i.m. display said her sibs that live in London is okay. That some girls from Wally’s community were hurt and one is in bad shape in the hospital. But I didn’t know what I could possible add, then I saw this  post by shelley that I had to point out….

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Wasn’t the point of sharepoint to make your life easier?

Tools

okay I give up 🙂

You know it’s bad when I do this in my blog. I have tried the newsgroups and googled myself to death and the clock is ticking…

I have been having a problem with getting file objects with SPWeb.GetFile for about a day. No matter what file name/path I pass into GetFile(), I get strange results: SPFile.Exists=false and many operations such as SPFile.Checkout fail. However, SPFile.OpenBinary works just fine. I have had this happen coding this directly into an ASP.NET page as well as when buildling a web service. All of the documentation says “this is the way to do it” but I find nothing that says “but if it doesn’t work…” – you know like when you are working with Beta software. I can’t imagine I am the first person who has had this problem!

To dig further into the problem, I built a test where I iterate through the webs and folders and then files in the folder, I am then taking a string representing the file (either ServerRelativeURL or some flavor of it) and creating a new file from it. Then if I attempt to SPWeb.GetFile(filepath) using the various paths and you can see that still, I consistently get SPFile.Exists=false even when I know the file is there.

Having iterated to a file in a folder with “For Each fileA As SPFile In folder.Files”

fileA.exist : True
fileA.Name: “ABR.XLS”
fileA.URL: “Shared Documents/ABR.XLS”
fileA.ServerRelativeURL: “/mysite/nn/Shared Documents/ABR.XLS”

create new files with spweb.getfile and test file.exists
(ServerRelativeURL) File Exists? ( /mysite/nn/Shared Documents/ABR.XLS ) False
File Exists?? ( mysite/nn/Shared Documents/ABR.XLS ) False
File Exists? ( nn/Shared Documents/ABR.XLS ) False

So, what gives here?



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