Why is access to the path denied?

Question

I am having a problem where I am trying to delete my file but I get an exception.

if (result == \"Success\")
{
     if (FileUpload.HasFile)
     {
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Answer 1

This is an old issue, but I ran into it while searching. Turns out that I was missing the actual filename component in the save path for SaveAs...

string uploadPath = Server.MapPath("~/uploads");
file.SaveAs(uploadPath); // BAD
file.SaveAs(Path.Combine(uploadPath, file.FileName)); // GOOD