peterb
November 23, 2021, 3:11pm
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I have dragged and dropped 2 static HTML sites into the Sites screen of the Netlify dashboard and they’ve deployed great.
When I drag and drop the 3rd static HTML site the drop target immediately changes to say
A requested file or directory could not be found at the time an operation was processed.
There is no error in the browser console and no further details.
I’ve looked through the files for this site; I can’t see anything different to the other 2 sites.
I tried uploading one of the ones that worked before as a new site and it worked, so it’s not a transient error @ Netlify.
Help please?!?
peterb
November 23, 2021, 8:31pm
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Update: If I zip up the directory, I can upload the zipfile and deploy. But if I drag the directory onto the uploader, it still fails.
fool
November 23, 2021, 10:03pm
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Hey Peter and sorry to hear about the trouble!
Here’s the best practices for drag and drop deploys on our system (TL;DR, try not to do it; it’s the worst and least reliable way to deploy and we will not be able to fix the root causes of that):
Last Reviewed by Netlify Support Staff: December 2022
Drag and drop, or "manual”, deploys are an easy way to get a simple website up and running super quick. One thing to know about manual deploys is (fun fact!) they do not generate deploy logs. This is because manual deploys don’t actually build anything, so there is nothing to log.
The upside to this is that they deploy lightening fast; the downside is that, without deploy logs, we can’t tell what is happening when things go wrong or get “st…
