Server error: The URL is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file or folder or refer to a valid file that is not in the current Web

Question

When checking out the Home.aspx page I receive this error.

Server error: The URL is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file or folder or refer to a valid file that is not in the current Web

I have read and checked the log files based on this article and we are not having any issues with disk space.

The file is checked out (even though it isn't initially indicated) and all of the webparts go missing. It happens both in the designer and from the web interface. I am really at a loss as to what to do to fix this issue, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is most probably happen in following case. Please check some checkpoint to solved this error:

1. SharePoint Database Server should have minimum 1 GB free space.
2. SharePoint Site application pool user/password is not expired.
3. Reset IIS and Recycle Application Pool of SharePoint site.

This will solve your error.

Answer 2

I have faced the same issue and I have done few changes in DB settings as below.

1. Check the auto growth size of that DB
2. And see the Maximum file size limit increase it to around 2048 MB.

Answer 3

I had the same problem and found this very simple solution which worked for me.

The above link offers more detail, but simply put, this is what I did.

Take content from problem file and copy into new file. Rename old file (e.g. home_old.aspx) and then rename new file (home.aspx). Very simple.

Answer 4

Open the page using the "Preview in Browser" and this will show you which webpart on the page is invalid. You can then either comment out the webpart code or append the URL in the browser with ?contents=1 and remove the webpart from the page.

Answer 5

A corrupt column was the culprit for me. This is what I did wrong:

• Created a single-line text column and added it to my document set content type.
• Set it as a shared column in document set settings.
• Indexed the column.
• Ran script to update that column for all documents and document sets. (I think this is where the column broke because I forgot to add it to the document content type)
• No longer able to upload documents or edit properties in this library.
• "Fixed" the issue by deleting the column

EDIT: The error happened again! However, now I think the issue is being caused by indexing columns. This is what I did wrong this time:

• Created 3 new columns
• Ran a script to update those columns
• Created an index for the new columns while the script was running
• Created an index for an EXISTING single-line text column (NOTE: the script was running, but I was not updating this column)
• "Fixed" the issue by removing the index for the existing single-line text column

I don't think my script is the has anything to do with it considering this is the second time adding an index for a single-line text column has caused issues.

Will test and update my answer with results.

Answer 6

I too had this issue, found out there was an issue with the file itself, copied the contents to another file and then was able to upload file successfully.

Answer 7

We also had this similar problem today with one excel file. It did not work even when we renamed it but accepted other files without a problem.

The solution was to open the non-working excile file locally on machine, right click on the sheet > Move or Copy > New book >& tick create a copy > OK.

Now save the file and upload it :)