Shadow Folders has difficulty with ampersand

chuckberg · Post by **chuckberg** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:53 pm

Shadow Folders has difficulty with ampersand in repository and folder paths. I'm getting a random number of "&" where only one should exist. And it would seem that "&" is being stored in the database, and not getting translated back into "&" when the path or repository is accessed. As a result, nothing gets shadowed.

Is my only fix to rename all the folders in my repository?

Post by **jclausius** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:08 am

I'm uncertain this will work, but there might be a work around. You could try to modify the web.config for the VaultShadowFolder web service. Check to see if the associations are correct (accounting for & as & as the file is xml).

Please make a backup of the file in case you need something to fall back upon.

chuckberg · Post by **chuckberg** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:05 pm

Well, it didn't work. It would seem that the web administration client is completely broken whenever it sees an ampersand in either the repository path or shadow directory.

The good news is that after renaming all of my paths and folders with "and" instead of "&", and setting up the new shadow folders, shadowing is now working. The bad news is that I now have 80 shadow folders that I never created. You can see the list in the attached text file. Furthermore, I can't delete them - it just ignores my request to do so.

Presumably these got into the database somehow. Can you tell me how to delete them from there?

Chuck

Post by **jclausius** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:24 pm

All shadow folder associations are stored in Shadow Folder's web.config file. You should be able to edit that file for changes.

chuckberg · Post by **chuckberg** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:36 pm

That did the trick. Everthing seems to be working fine now.

chuckberg · Post by **chuckberg** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:36 pm

Thanks!

Post by **jeremy_sg** » Fri May 30, 2008 3:42 pm

Vault 4.1.2 will no longer mangle the path in this way.