Maybe this is a long shot, but I just thought of this one: http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst7538_Error-when-trying-to-create-in-Media-v4.aspx

>Tommy

Well, I'm not using the UI at all, so I shouldn't need the UI xml file to do this.

Morten,

Been caught with this one before you need to do the following when creating at the root you need to do

Media[] root = Media.GetRootMedias();

thats how i got it to work.

Regards

Ismail

I actually do that earlier in my code. I am looking if a folder already exists in the root, and if not, I want to create it.

I can loop through the existing nodes just fine. But can't create a new one. How does your complete code look?

Morten,

Doing this in an actionhandler:

 private int createMediaFolder(Document sender)
        {

            int id = 0;
            int parentId = 0;
            Media parentMediaFolder;
            try
            {
                Media[] root = Media.GetRootMedias();
                Media rootFolder = new Media(Config.Settings.MediaFolderRootID);
                string parentFolderText = sender.Parent.Text;

                parentId = getExistingFolderID(root, parentFolderText);

                //media folder does not already exist
                if (parentId == 0)
                {
                    parentMediaFolder = Media.MakeNew(parentFolderText, new MediaType(1031), UmbracoEnsuredPage.CurrentUser, rootFolder.Id);
                    parentId = parentMediaFolder.Id;
                }
                else{
                    parentMediaFolder = new Media(parentId);
                }
                if(parentMediaFolder.HasChildren){
                    //does the retailer folder already exist
                    id = getExistingFolderID(parentMediaFolder.Children, sender.Text);
                    if (id == 0) {
                        Media retailerFolder = Media.MakeNew(sender.Text, new MediaType(1031), UmbracoEnsuredPage.CurrentUser, parentId);
                        id = retailerFolder.Id;
                    }
                }
                else{

                    Media retailerFolder = Media.MakeNew(sender.Text, new MediaType(1031), UmbracoEnsuredPage.CurrentUser, parentId);
                    id = retailerFolder.Id;
                }

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                //log
                errors = true;
                errorMessage += "\n\n" + ex.Message.ToString();
                Log.Add(LogTypes.Error, sender.Id, ex.Message.ToString());
            }
            return id;
        }

        private int getExistingFolderID(Media[] root, string folderName)
        {
            int folderID=0;

            var folder = (from m in root
                          where m.ContentType.Alias=="Folder" && 
                          m.Text.ToLower() == folderName.ToLower()
                          select m).FirstOrDefault();

            folderID = folder != null ? folder.Id : 0;

            return folderID;
        } 

Argh. Found the problem.

Seems that there was a transaction scope around my code, and umbraco decided to swallow the SQL Exception that the transaction needed to be closed before making the second part of my updates.

Well, found the cause, so now I just need to figure out how to work around it. Thanks all.

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