Multiple Errors: DoPhysicalFiles - -

Hi Martin, are you sure, that your affected files are really not available in the File Vault anymore? I do not have a solution for this issue, but maybe an explanation. I also have 5 files in my Vault that are undeletable. I get the following error message when trying to delete them: Multible bugs: DoPhysicalFiles - Access to the path was denied. (translated version, english version may be differnt) Also my files are still available in the file vault! I even can open them when selecting them in the ItemType File. In my case, the delete problems are caused by security settings in the file vault itself. 1. Go to your file vault and search a file 3. Select the File -> right click -> Properties 4. Go to the Security tab 5. Take a look at the Group or user names box A regular file where everything is ok will contain a "Aras Vault AppPool ASP.NET 4.0" in the Group or user names box A corrupted file doesn´t contain the "Aras Vault AppPool ASP.NET 4.0" user. Instead a local users (in my case it´s myself) is set. Maybe it´s possible to restore the security settings for the complete File Vault. I didn´t fix this yet as only a small number of files was affected. Hope this helps. Angela

Hi Angela, On the live server all the files are present and can be accessed, on the test server the vault was not copied across.  This means I can only delete files that have been added to the test server. I want to test a piece of code that deletes a file, but if the file is not present I get an an exception after the code has run. It appears that the File has an onBeforeDelete event that runs an internal method.  This runs after the file meta-data has been deleted, ie try{} catch{} does not catch the exception. Thus I want to be able to detect if the file is present before trying to delete it I have read that I can use request - response to detect if a file exists at a URL, but I don't know how to get the URL to check.  I have tried to copy the link, but the page always succeeds as this takes me to the ARAS Log-in page. see msdn.microsoft.com/.../system.net.httpwebrequest.getresponse(v=vs.110).aspx

Ok, your DoPhysicalFiles error message is a different one than mine. To think it very simple: When your Vault exists at same instance as your code tree, you could do a simple check of the local files with File.Exists:

Innovator inn = this.getInnovator();
string path ="E:\\Aras\\MyVault\\MyDB\\A\\06\\123348FBF4AB2A5B12B53EB0933B7\\MyFile.txt";
var x = File.Exists(path);
return inn.newResult("File exists: "+x);

When you have to use a URL, you propably have to chance the user credentials parameter in the Vault config to get direct access. Then your URL have to look somehow like this: myplm/.../vaultserver.aspx You can build your url string with the filename and id property of the File item.

A Big thanks to Mike from support who gave the answer: string fileUrl = inn.getFileUrl(fileId, UrlType.SecurityToken); HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(fileUrl); request.Method = "HEAD";   Many thanks, Martin