Fixing "The file exists" IOException Error

• Mar 29th, 2011
• 1 comments
• ASP.NET, Windows

If you get the System.IO.IOException: The file exists error, it's probably because your C:/Windows/Temp folder is absolutely full with temporary files. In fact, if you have more than 65535 files in your temp folder, the method GetTempFileName will throw this error.

To resolve this, just remove all temporary files in C:/Windows/Temp. It might take some time, but it will solve the problem.

Here's the stack trace I got:

System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName()