The
Explorer View is an excellent feature that is integrated with windows
SharePoint Services that allows a user to access a document library as if you
were accessing a file system through a Windows Explorer window.
Being end
users, everyone might feel that this is very easy to use. But there are
multiple complex interactions happening with different technologies to make
documents which are not present in file systems to viewable using explorer.
Problem Description:
While
trying to cut and paste files or folders from one document library to another
using windows explorer view, the following error message may occur:
“Cannot read from source
file or disk”.
This
issue cannot be reproducible in a Windows XP environment; however this can be
reproducible in Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008 /
Windows 2008 R2. Here are some Scenarios when you do cut and paste of
files / folders:
- MOVE between sites collections in the same web application works with XP
- MOVE between sites collections not in the same web application works with Vista and 7
- MOVE between two mapped drives (using net use command where one
connected to site col1, and the second one connected to site col2) works with Vista and 7 (within a
same web application, or between two webs application)
Resolutions:
Two
workarounds are available so select anyone as per the flexibility.
1:
COPY and PASTE the required data; then DELETE the files instead of using CUT
and PASTE.
2:
Create two mapped drives using "net use" command. Then complete
CUT/PASTE between the mapped drives.
If you have
any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let
me know. Thank you.
