StorageFile.GetFileFromPathAsync copying files from a network - Does not work !!

Question

Hello

I am writing a Line of Business app for windows 8 and part of the process is a background task that will copy image files from a central UNC path to the local documents dir in order that they can be displayed in a loop on a page..

I have read the document below that would indicate that this is possible but I keep getting access denied errors.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh967755.aspx

I am testing the std File Access Sample and have changed one line of code in the constants.cs

I have turned on EVERY Capability and added the file ext and set file open / picker as allowed

The unc is read write for everyone and is on the same machine

Has anyone Ever got this to work ??

 private async void Initialize()

        {
            try
            {
                //sampleFile = await Windows.Storage.KnownFolders.DocumentsLibrary.GetFileAsync(filename);
                string myfile = @"\\ALL387\Temp\testfile.txt";
                sampleFile = await Windows.Storage.StorageFile.GetFileFromPathAsync(myfile);

            }
            catch (FileNotFoundException)
            {
                // sample file doesn't exist so scenario one must be run
            }

            catch (Exception e)
            {
                var fred = e.Message;

            }

I am also considering converting the inc share to a web site, would this work ? Does anyone have a sample for reading all files returned from a call to a browsable web folder ?

TIA

Answer 1

Did you do this step?

Note  You must add File Type Associations to your app manifest that declare specific file types that your app can access in this location.

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 2

Hi,

I finally got this to work.

It seems that you cannot open the files on the remote unc path despite all the settings.

I ended up doing a copy of the files to a localknown dir and opening them there

one other point to note... I did this with a background maint task but despite what the tutorials say the ony way that would work was to place the entire copy function and code into a separate win RT component project..

Thanks

B...