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Jun 13th, 2012, 02:03 PM
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[RESOLVED] Help needed, error using WebClient
Okay, I've got a class I wrote a while back to download files using WebClient. It worked under XP when I wrote it and used it. Now I'm using it under Windows 7 for the first time, and I'm getting an error when I try to download. The string URL contains, of all things, the complete URL for the file I'm trying to download. It exists... I placed it there myself and can access it via browser. The string Location contains the destination directory, which in this case is "C:\Test".
Code:
Dim WC As New WebClient
WC.DownloadFile(URL, Location)
When this code runs, it fires off an exception, the meat of which is this:
InnerException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException
Message=Access to the path 'C:\Test' is denied.
I've checked the directory, and it has security privs for all users set to full access. Does anybody have any idea what I'm missing here? This isn't a problem with the download itself, I think it's bumping into Windows 7 issues that I didn't have to worry about in Windows XP.
NOTE: the directory is empty, so it shouldn't be running into read-only issues of the files in the folder.
Any thoughts?
UPDATED: Okay, I figured this out. It was a stupid error... I didn't include the file name along with the destination directory. Fixed that, and it worked fine.
Last edited by HongKongCV; Jun 13th, 2012 at 02:16 PM.
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