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Shozam - Upload - Cannot copy gallery to a WebDAV "web folder"

David Green
posted this on November 28, 2011 06:26 pm

BACKGROUND 

Web Folders are the Microsoft Windows client implementation of WebDAV. WebDAV allows you to drag-and-drop files to or from your computer and a web server, such as UBFS space, by creating a Web Folder.

Windows provides a quick and easy way to upload files to a web server by using Web Folders. These appear as regular network folders in Windows Explorer, as part of My Network Connections. It provides a way to display and manage files located on the Web server without going explicitly through an FTP connection program. Copying files to a Web Folder may seem as a regular copy operation but under the hood is a bit different as FTP is being used to actually transfer those files to the Web location.

CONDITIONS 

You are using a Windows Web Folder to transfer your Shozam generated gallery files to your web server.
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You have Internet security software such as programs offered by McAfee.

SYMPTOM 

Copying or moving the gallery files to the Web Folder fails. Note: this is based on user report of this issue when McAfee Security software present - ticket id [21F-11A95344-CBDA].

CAUSE 

Security software prevents moving the files to the web folder (basically transferring those files to the online location associated with that web folder) because of theautorun.ini file that is present in the root of the gallery folder. This file is useful only when you burn the gallery files to a CD; it will prompt a computer to show the gallery automatically when the CD is inserted in the computer's CD-ROM. The file is not needed when a gallery is meant to be seen on the Internet, from a Web server.

SOLUTION 

Delete autorun.ini or just do not copy that file along with the other gallery files when moving them to a Web Folder.

REFERENCES

Relevant links:
http://www.mydocsonline.com/info_webfolders.html
http://wings.buffalo.edu/computing/documentation/win/webfolders.html
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=17C36612-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64&displaylang=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+web+folders