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I'd suggest wrapping the copy in a Try/Catch block just to be sure. Then
throw a new exception, outputing your source/destination paths along with
the original exception:

Try
System.IO.File.Copy(Source,Dest)
Catch ex as exception
throw new Exception("Source: '" & source & "' - Dest: '" & dest &
"'",ex)
end try

also, put a break point at the Throw, and examine your variables.



"Xander Q." <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Something really strange is happening. i'm using the following code to
> copy a file. this worked on my development machine, but when i moved
> it to the server (win2k) it is not copying the file and not generating
> an error. it just merrily goes on.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> source= Server.MapPath("/TTClaimsForm2/Reports/xxx.doc")
> dest= Server.MapPath("/TTClaimsForm2/Reports/Temp/xxx.doc")
>
> System.IO.File.Copy(source, dest)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> i checked the value of dest and it's correct. i replaced it with an
> empty string and it gave an error as expected.
>
> BUT i noticed that if i hard code destination like this:
> System.IO.File.Copy(source,
> "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ttclaimsform2\Temp\xxx.doc ") then the copy works.
>
> how can this be happening?

"David Waz..." <> wrote in message news:<bhZNa.1682$ om>...
> I'd suggest wrapping the copy in a Try/Catch block just to be sure. Then
> throw a new exception, outputing your source/destination paths along with
> the original exception:


ah yes i neglected to mention that i already did that, and the value
of 'dest' is correct. it is the same as the hard-coded string and yet
it fails...

damn i hate this stuff!!!

but thx for the input...