Hi all and thanks for a great forum!

I just got my hands on some code snippet that I found here on the forum in an old post. The purpose is to create a Media from the path of a FileUpload control and return the media. I would like to credit the guy who made this code, but I simply can't remember his name :/

Anyway, when I run the code it gives me the error "Access to path 'the id of media node' denied" It does make the actual media node in the Media content tree, but there's no data in it.I have placed a key in my web.config under appSettings to point to the media folder of my site: D:/WEB/mysite.dk/www/media, which I believe is the right path (got it from the Server.MapPath("."); method)

Anyone got this problem before and know of a workaround?

The code to create the media item is:

public Media CreateMedia()
    {
        string mediaPath = "";
            Media m = null;
            if (ulImage.PostedFile != null)
            {
                if (ulImage.PostedFile.FileName != "")
                {
                    // Find filename
                    string _text = ulImage.PostedFile.FileName;
                    string filename;
                    string _fullFilePath;

                    filename = _text.Substring(_text.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1, _text.Length - _text.LastIndexOf("\\") - 1).ToLower();

                    // create the Media Node
                    // TODO:  get parent id for current category - as selected by user (see below)
                    // - for now just stick these in the media root :: node = -1
                    m = Media.MakeNew(
                        filename, MediaType.GetByAlias("image"), User.GetUser(0), 1211);

                    // Create a new folder in the /media folder with the name /media/propertyid
                    string mediaRootPath = HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("AppSettings", "MediaFilePath") as string; // get path from App_GlobalResources
                    string storagePath = mediaRootPath + m.Id.ToString();
                    System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(storagePath);
                    _fullFilePath = storagePath + "\\" + filename;
                    ulImage.PostedFile.SaveAs(_fullFilePath);

                    // Save extension
                    string orgExt = ((string)_text.Substring(_text.LastIndexOf(".") + 1, _text.Length - _text.LastIndexOf(".") - 1));
                    orgExt = orgExt.ToLower();
                    string ext = orgExt.ToLower();
                    try
                    {
                        m.getProperty("umbracoExtension").Value = ext;
                    }
                    catch { }

                    // Save file size
                    try
                    {
                        System.IO.FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(_fullFilePath);
                        m.getProperty("umbracoBytes").Value = fi.Length.ToString();
                    }
                    catch { }

                    // Check if image and then get sizes, make thumb and update database
                    if (",jpeg,jpg,gif,bmp,png,tiff,tif,".IndexOf("," + ext + ",") > 0)
                    {
                        int fileWidth;
                        int fileHeight;

                        FileStream fs = new FileStream(_fullFilePath,
                            FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);

                        System.Drawing.Image image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs);
                        fileWidth = image.Width;
                        fileHeight = image.Height;
                        fs.Close();
                        try
                        {
                            m.getProperty("umbracoWidth").Value = fileWidth.ToString();
                            m.getProperty("umbracoHeight").Value = fileHeight.ToString();
                        }
                        catch { }

                        // Generate thumbnails
                        string fileNameThumb = _fullFilePath.Replace("." + orgExt, "_thumb");
                        generateThumbnail(image, 100, fileWidth, fileHeight, _fullFilePath, ext, fileNameThumb + ".jpg");

                        image.Dispose();
                    }
                    mediaPath = "/media/" + m.Id.ToString() + "/" + filename;

                    m.getProperty("umbracoFile").Value = mediaPath;
                    m.XmlGenerate(new XmlDocument());
                }
            }

            // return the media...
            return  m;
        }

Thanks in advance!

Bo