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Cannot Upload to Document Library - Flush SharePoint Documents?

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by chris

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I'm having a terrible time with a particular WSS 3.0 site. I built a site for a remote location that is out-of-state. They'd been using VPN for managing their files, but it got out of hand. The idea was to build a site under our SharePoint server for them.

I built it without issues and began to upload files from their network share to their shared document library.

Almost immediately, I got a message that a particular file or folder was "improperly named or too long". I have the feeling it was an ampersand because the folder name was quite short. I canceled the file copy operation.

Now, when I try to copy ANYTHING to the library, I get "There is already a folder with the same name as the file name you specified. Specify a different name". This is on a brand new document called 'test.doc', so I'm sure nothing is there. The library is obviously broken.

So I tried deleting the library and creating a new one. No luck. I deleted the site and recreated it. No luck.

I have no idea why this is happening or what to do. Can anyone help???

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by chris

I just tried from an XP computer, and I'm not having the problem. What is interesting, is even though I'm having the problem with on my normal Vista PC, it's only on that particular site. I'm having no issues with uploading to the Shared Docs on the other SharePoint sites.

by wptechrepublic

Did you ever get the root cause of this issue? I'm having the exact issue and I can't seem to find what's causing it.

Thanks.
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