File I/O Error - Error #2038

[Kristian Wright]

I've seen a few posts on this error but none of them seem to solve my
issue.

I'm trying to upload some files via a FileReference object, with a CF
backend. The CFC works fine with smaller files (eg under 300k), but
with files over this size, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

When it doesn't work, I get the following I/O Error:

IOErrorEvent
type="ioError"
bubbles=false
cancelable=false
eventPhase=2
text="Error #2038: File I/O Error.
URL: my URL

The server side script is working, as I can try and upload a smaller
file, and it works. But when I'm getting the I/O error, the app stops
before it even reaches the CFC. I've set a Progress listener to the
FileUpload object, and it seems to just slow down and eventually stop,
throwing the I/O error before file upload has reacherd the total bytes
of the file.

Does anyone know what might be going on here?

Thanks,
K.

[Kristian Wright]

Anyone???

[RuAnSoft]

Hi,

Have same issue...
Do you have solution now for solve this?

Thanks

[buabco]

HI!

I haven't had that problem, but it looks like you should check the upload file size limit on the server.

[RuAnSoft]

file size limit 100 Mb on server

tried to upload file in 500 Kb, from 5 uploads 2 failed. It's very weird that this "sometimes it works" ...

[Guest]

I am always experiencing the damn I/O Errors.
It seems when the connection status is bad (as a result from pinging to server) , the I/O error triggers.
Do u have any good idea for handle with this kind of I/O Errors. As any idea for supervention-uploading after I/O error....

[RuAnSoft]

I think Adobe/Macromedia team must debug this issue... ti's very sytrange issue that happened in 3 uploads from 7 on one of my production server...

[elegant_Explorer16B8]

I received this error only once, when I tried to upload an image using FileReferenceList.browse(filters). The image was corrupted and had no file size. When I tried to get the size of the item, I got the following message:

Error: Error #2038: File I/O Error.
at flash.net::FileReference/get size()

Try wrapping any inspection of the FileReference.fileList items in a try/catch to silence the errors and skip the offensive files:

try{
trace(fileReferenceList.fileList[0].size);
} catch(e:Error){trace(e.message)}

[odyssey27]

Adobe seems blatantly silent on this issue. Adobe, this and other issues with multifile uploading are a real problem and need to be addressed!

[hope4555]

This seems to be related to the following:

1. the files you are trying to upload are from a network drive

2. the files you are trying to upload are from a drive that you do not have permissions to

In the above cases when accessing the "size" property of FileReference you will get an exception

You can use the following:

private function getSize(file:FileReference):Number{

       try{

            return file.size;

       }catch(e:Error){

            return 0;

       }

  }