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Ray K.
Ray K.

Reputation: 2511

ASP.NET publish trying to copy a non-existant file

I'm trying to publish an ASP.NET project in VS2010, and am getting the following error:

Copying file bin\CKFinder.pdb to obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\bin\CKFinder.pdb failed. Could not find file 'bin\CKFinder.pdb'.

I had tried using a trial version of CKFinder (with CKEditor), but I backed it out. I removed all references to CKFinder, including the folders and the references - or so I thought.

Why is this error coming up? Ideas?

Upvotes: 43

Views: 63521

Answers (13)

amir mohammad bayat
amir mohammad bayat

Reputation: 1

These problems occur when the bin file is included in the project, note that if the bin folder exists in your solution, exclude it.

Upvotes: 0

Alexander Benny
Alexander Benny

Reputation: 31

You must exclude bin folder from project, then republish your project. the way can solve my problem

Upvotes: 3

Ariwibawa
Ariwibawa

Reputation: 667

Another solution is to delete publish profile, this error happened to me after I deleted 1 of the EF DbContext. The solution keep track of that file inside publish folder, I recreated the profile and publish successfully.

My error was this

No DbContext named 'xxxx' was found.

Upvotes: 0

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 2942

I had files inside of my directory I intended to publish to. Deleting these allowed for a successful publish.

Upvotes: 0

Murugan
Murugan

Reputation: 692

Delete file showing exclamation mark in the solution explorer. It worked for me

Solution explorer with file

Upvotes: 11

Ogglas
Ogglas

Reputation: 70126

In my case I got a similar error but with .cshtml files like this:

copying to Views\Home\About.cshtml to obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\Views\Home\About.cshtml failed. Could not find file 'Views\Home\About.cshtml'

Looking at the Solution Explorer tree everything seemed fine with no yellow markings but when clicking on a file it gave an error.

The item 'About.cshtml' does not exist in the project directory. It may have been moved, renamed or deleted.

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Removing the files from Solution solved it for me.

Upvotes: 2

Jose A
Jose A

Reputation: 11129

I also bumped to this problem. I was receiving the following error, when trying to publish MVCForum 1.7:

Copying file App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt to obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt failed. Could not find file 'App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt'.

François Breton's comment helped me achieve the solution.

It's simple:

Open your .csproj file with a text editor (Notepad, Notepad++) Visual Studio will open it as a project.

Press Ctrl + F and search for the file of the problem. In my case the file was "Hello.txt" without commas.

Under the <ItemGroup> it resided:

<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt" />
<Content Include="Content\admin\Admin.css">
    <DependentUpon>Admin.scss</DependentUpon>
</Content>
...More code omitted due to brevity.

I deleted the <Content Include="App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt" /> line, and voila! Visual Studio allowed me to Preview before publishing!

It will end like this:

<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="Content\admin\Admin.css">
    <DependentUpon>Admin.scss</DependentUpon>
</Content>
...More code omitted due to brevity.

Upvotes: 48

user3150744
user3150744

Reputation: 34

Check for bin folder is added in vs explorer. If it was there then exclude from project and check. It worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

PontiusTheBarbarian
PontiusTheBarbarian

Reputation: 1030

Right click on your project => unload project => right click again on your newly unloaded project => edit 'myProject.csproj' => Search for the offending files (CTRL + F) and remove.

If the error appears again within the same parent directory, but now under a different file name, it could be that a user has mistakenly included a file in the project (like I did). All files under the offending directory can be removed. This should solve the problem.

Upvotes: 3

mxasim
mxasim

Reputation: 2193

I mistakenly included obj Folder to Visual Studio Project. Excluding Obj folder from project fixed my issue

Upvotes: 1

Anjan Kant
Anjan Kant

Reputation: 4316

Me just removed yellow marked file from my visual studio solution & it worked greatly for me because files were added and removed many times from folders but its not removed from VS solution project.

Upvotes: 13

Abdullah
Abdullah

Reputation: 307

I ran into same problem, i just clicked show all files, and deleted the files that had exclamation mark with them. Hope this helps someone.

Upvotes: 6

Ray K.
Ray K.

Reputation: 2511

Update: I went into Project --> Package/Publish Settings, and clicked "Exclude generated debug symbols." The project began publishing with no issue.

Update #2 (this is probably the better answer): I tried to publish as debug instead of release (yes, I wanted to keep the debug features in this particular release), and the error came up again. It turned out that I did not exclude the CKfinder.dll from the project. Once I did so, it ran with no problem.

Upvotes: 13

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