J
Joseph M. Newcomer
I can be using FrontPage when suddenly I get some bizarre error about
"i:\whatever\someplace: Server busy. Try again". Now the weird thing is that THERE IS NO
SERVER INVOLVED IN THIS! I'm directly editing files in-place on my machine. It just
spontaneously goes into this mode from time to time. It makes no sense. I do not have
any Web server running, I've never had a Web server running, and a week or two later, I
can usually edit again. The files are on my server, and when I'm done editing them, I FTP
them to my ISP's site.
What is even more surprising is that this will occasionally happen during a save, and
since I don't want to lose my edits, I switch to HTML view, do a Select All, do a copy,
paste it into my ordinary text editor, and save it, so it is not the case that the file
cannot be overwritten; I can freely overwrite it with no problem from any other program. I
can read the files by giving the explicit path to them with Internet Explorer. But I can
shut down FrontPage, restart it, and the bug still exists.
Why does it issue such a meaningless and pointless error message? What is really going
wrong, and how can I fix it?
joe
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm
"i:\whatever\someplace: Server busy. Try again". Now the weird thing is that THERE IS NO
SERVER INVOLVED IN THIS! I'm directly editing files in-place on my machine. It just
spontaneously goes into this mode from time to time. It makes no sense. I do not have
any Web server running, I've never had a Web server running, and a week or two later, I
can usually edit again. The files are on my server, and when I'm done editing them, I FTP
them to my ISP's site.
What is even more surprising is that this will occasionally happen during a save, and
since I don't want to lose my edits, I switch to HTML view, do a Select All, do a copy,
paste it into my ordinary text editor, and save it, so it is not the case that the file
cannot be overwritten; I can freely overwrite it with no problem from any other program. I
can read the files by giving the explicit path to them with Internet Explorer. But I can
shut down FrontPage, restart it, and the bug still exists.
Why does it issue such a meaningless and pointless error message? What is really going
wrong, and how can I fix it?
joe
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm