Unfriendly SharePoint Error Message

by Paul Sherman on January 10, 2007 · 1 comment

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Unfriendly SharePoint Error Message

My company uses Microsoft SharePoint. It really sucks. Badly.

Y’know why I got this error? I was trying to create a sub-folder under one of my project folders. I wanted to name the sub-folder as descriptively as possible, so in the name field I entered “Raw notes for 360 – polished visit reports are in root”.

SharePoint barfed on that idea and popped this ridiculous message. It’s so bad it’s almost funny.

Hey SharePoint…if you didn’t like my input, why don’t you TELL ME WHAT WAS WRONG WITH IT INSTEAD OF MAKING ME GUESS.

Tagged as: Windows

  • http://celeduc.blogspot.com Chuck LeDuc

    My favourite was the time I was reorganizing a sharepoint site. You can’t move documents: instead, you may download them and upload them to another location. So there I was busily downloading and deleting those documents with the handy “explorer” interface. Then I went to upload them, and tried opening one (a Word doc). It consisted of nothing but the words “500 Server Error.” Instead of reporting an error in downloading, Sharepoint helpfully replaced the content of the file with the error message. I lost all of my documents. Thanks Microsoft!

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