Drag and drop deploy fails with "A requested file or directory could not be found..."

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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):

[Support Guide] My drag and drop deploy is stuck in "Uploading" status

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…