Dear All, I am facing this odd problem where despite having full control over a shared folder I cant change its name both in 'explorer view' and in 'edit properties' . In 'explorer view ' I get 'can not rename, cannot read from source file or disk' In 'edit properties ' I get the following message 'an unexpected error has occurred ' this is quite odd as I can rename other folders on the same location. Any help in this regard will be appreciated. Thanks, Fake Steve Jobs

Hi Fake Steve Jobs, It seems that this problem is happening only for a specific folder. Can you tell us the current Name of the Folder and what is the New Name you are trying to give it. What is the version/edition of SharePoint you are using? What is the Client Operating System you are using?Thanks & Regards, Kamlesh | Blog | Twitter | Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi Kamlesh, Current Name: Project Docs New Name: Project Documents Client OS: Windows XP SharePoint Version: Moss 2007 with latest SPs

Hi Fake Steve Jobs, Can you please double check if there are any Special Characters in the Folder Names (especially sometimes some people try to fool by creating folders with special characteres) I tried using a special character (ALT+255) (use Numeric Keypad to type 255) instead of Space key and got into the same problem with Explorer View.Thanks & Regards, Kamlesh | Blog | Twitter | Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Kamlesh, Are you talking about the sub folders within the root folder I am trying to rename? Btw, the root folder doesn't contain any special character neither I am aiming for one.

Yes, that is another test case, which can be considered. But I am not really sure if this is your problem. I am just asking you to verify if there is any issues w.r.t Special Characters being used.Thanks & Regards, Kamlesh | Blog | Twitter | Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Is there a possibility that some users might be using documents within these folders/subfolders and that's why I cant rename the parent folder?

Yes, that can be a probability, but I cannot confirm this until someone really experiments this test case. Its a valid test case to experiment with: 1) Create a sample Test folder and sub-folder and some files underneath it. Let someone checkout a file in a sub-folder 2) You try to rename its parent folder and see. Let me know your findings.Thanks & Regards, Kamlesh | Blog | Twitter | Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi, I have just do a test by checked out some files in the folder and still can rename the folder. So sounds like the problem is caused by something else. Any other clues ? Thx,

I ran into a case of this today. In a subsite\Shared Documents\Current Projects (where Current Projects is a folder) user has a series of folders with project names. In each project folder are documents owned by the user himself. He tried to edit the properties of the folder from 1 name to another. The error he got was: Server Error in '/' Application. The file Shared Documents/Old Folder Name has been modified by ourdomain\the_user on 20 Jul 2012 10:19:26 -0400. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The file Shared Documents/Old Folder Name has been modified by ourdomain\the_user on 20 Jul 2012 10:19:26 -0400. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [COMException (0x81020037): The file Shared Documents/Old Folder Name has been modified by ourdomain\the_user on 20 Jul 2012 10:19:26 -0400.] Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.AddOrUpdateItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystemUpdate, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bUpdateNoVersion, Int32& plID, String& pbstrGuid, Guid pbstrNewDocId, Boolean bHasNewDocId, String bstrVersion, Object& pvarAttachmentNames, Object& pvarAttachmentContents, Object& pvarProperties, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish) +0 Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.AddOrUpdateItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystemUpdate, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bUpdateNoVersion, Int32& plID, String& pbstrGuid, Guid pbstrNewDocId, Boolean bHasNewDocId, String bstrVersion, Object& pvarAttachmentNames, Object& pvarAttachmentContents, Object& pvarProperties, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish) +203 [SPException: The file Shared Documents/ChemTags (CAplus 2012) has been modified by CAS\jcw24 on 20 Jul 2012 10:19:26 -0400.] Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.AddOrUpdateItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystemUpdate, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bUpdateNoVersion, Int32& plID, String& pbstrGuid, Guid pbstrNewDocId, Boolean bHasNewDocId, String bstrVersion, Object& pvarAttachmentNames, Object& pvarAttachmentContents, Object& pvarProperties, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish) +251 Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.AddOrUpdateItem(Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystem, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bNoVersion, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Guid newGuidOnAdd, Int32& ulID, Object& objAttachmentNames, Object& objAttachmentContents, Boolean suppressAfterEvents) +1026 Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.UpdateInternal(Boolean bSystem, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Guid newGuidOnAdd, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, Boolean bNoVersion, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean suppressAfterEvents) +182 Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.Update() +93 Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SaveButton.SaveItem(SPContext itemContext, Boolean uploadMode, String checkInComment) +545 Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SaveButton.SaveItem() +71 Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SaveButton.OnBubbleEvent(Object source, EventArgs e) +277 System.Web.UI.Control.RaiseBubbleEvent(Object source, EventArgs args) +37 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnCommand(CommandEventArgs e) +118 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +166 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +10 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +175 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1565 the_user has full control according to the library settings.