Microsoft KB Archive/841360

= Two versions of the same document appear when you put a document in a SharePoint Server 2003 document library =

Article ID: 841360

Article Last Modified on 5/15/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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SYMPTOMS
Two versions of a document are created when you put a document in a document library. This problem occurs whether you use a drag operation or a copy-and-paste operation to put the document in the document library.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when following conditions are true:
 * The document library is on a server that is running Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
 * The document library is in Explorer view.
 * The document library has the Document Versions feature enabled.

If these conditions are true when you put a document in the document library, the following two requests are sent to the SharePoint Portal server:
 * A request to put the document in the document library
 * A request to set the document properties

When this behavior occurs, the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Redirector makes two different calls to the server while the WebDAV Redirector is uploading the document. Each call creates a new version of the document.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, you must upload documents to the document library. Follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Upload Document.
 * 2) Click Browse, and then locate the document that you want to put in the document library.
 * 3) Click Open.
 * 4) Fill in any required properties for documents in the document library.
 * 5) Click Save and Close.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

Additional query words: WSS SPS2003 SPS2k3 SPS

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbwebfolder kbhotfixserver KB841360

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