Visual Studio Publsih Error.

Question

I often get this error whenever i try to publish changes to one of my website from visual studio using FTP and have to switch to fileZilla though i want to publish only changes and want VS to do it for me but i don't get any success.

Preparing to publish files...
Connecting to ftp://mysite.......
Unable to add folder 'Images' to the Web site. Cannot create folder "Images".

But there is already a folder named images in my server with more that 2000 images in it. I just wanted to upload more images and got this error.

Sachin Singh · Answer

@Salman , I am publishing this site for more than a year whenever i need to make changes or add some new images or files i just make change and publish from visual studio but i often encounter this error and then i need to use FileZilla , though i really don't want to use fileZilla but left with no option. I don't know this is a visual studio problem or mine , sometimes it work flawlessly then suddenly start giving this error. If i reupload whole website again , no error come but last time it took me 6 hours to upload all files , so i don't want to upload all things again.

Sachin Singh · Answer

@Amit Sir I just added 10 more images to Images folder then selected just these 10 new images , right clicked and published. the settings are saved so it connected to server immediately , however nothing got published due to error , the website is huge if i reupload the whole website again then it will take around 4+ hours and i won't get any error but this is not a solution at all.

Salman Beg · Answer

Hey. Maybe permission issue. Otherwise few files are read only. I used ftp but never face such issue. Well can you try couple of solutions in this link, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9903000/visual-studio-unable-to-add-to-the-web-site-unable-to-add-file-access-is

Amit Gupta · Answer

Please re-check the actual path of images folder and also the spelling of it (is it image or images)