Error uploading .doc or .xls to WebDAV server
When attempting to copy a Word 2003 .doc file or Excel 2003 .xls file to our Server 2003 WebDAV site from either Windows Vista or Windows 7, we get an error:
Copy File: Cannot read from the source file or disk
Copying the same file from a Windows XP machine works just fine. Deleting some content from the header of the file works around the problem. Saving the file as a .docx works around the problem.
Unfortunately, none of these solutions are adequate for a real-world user environment.
This problem has been reported elsewhere with no solution posted:
Vistaheads
How can we correct this problem?
April 21st, 2010 3:50pm
We've found some additional information. If the .doc and .xls files are copied using the command-line, the files copy just fine. They only seem to fail if one is using Explorer or Microsoft Office to copy/save the files to the WebDAV folder.
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April 25th, 2010 12:30pm
We have found a bit more information. If one puts a .doc or .xls file in a zip file, uploads that to the webdav server, and then extracts that file to the webdav share, that also works successfully. So, the tally is:
save with Explorer - fails save with Word/Excel - fails extract from Zip using Explorer zip support - works copy using command-line - works
April 27th, 2010 8:19pm
Jason:
Not sure if this will help but Excel & Word would not save to the network. I resolved mine by removing KB980232, it was loaded some time last week.
Hope this help.
Larry
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April 28th, 2010 8:39am
Larry, thanks for the tip. That patch is not relevant to our situation. We are able to save documents from Word/Excel just fine over SMB. Instead, the documents fail to save or copy to a WebDAV target.
May 7th, 2010 5:54am
I'm reporting the same issue from a Windows 7 (and previous Vista installation) to our company's WebDAV server (2003, but not sure). Any fixes yet?
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July 12th, 2010 4:52am
sorry for the necro-post
But at present day, anno 2012, in Windows Server 2008 R2, I still / also am experiencing the problem described above...
Has any hotfix been released to fix the problem described in the startpost?
April 20th, 2012 4:35am