AIR 1.5 - Can't Access Local Network URIs?

Question

private static const ROOT_PATH_TO_SERVER_TEMP:String =
"\\\\server\\share\\queue\\temp_images\\"
Up until the 1.5 update, this worked great. Now it gives me :
Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2038: File I/O Error.
Which implies that I do not have permission to access the
resource. I do, but AIR isn't allowing it to happen. This has
COMPLETELY hosed my application for our company's CMS.
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I have implemented a work around for this issue. If the user
is running 1.5, I create the folder in their local storage
directory and then move it to the destination UNC path. That works.
I pasted the static method I'm using to do this below:
FileUtil.createFolder = function(path,overwrite) {
var runtimeVersion =
air.NativeApplication.nativeApplication.runtimeVersion;
var runtimeArray = runtimeVersion.split(".");
var useWorkaround = false;
//1.5.0.7220 - bad version
//do workaround for 1.5 if UNC path
if ((runtimeArray[0] == "1") && (runtimeArray[1] ==
"5") && (path.substr(0,2) == "\\\\")) {
useWorkaround = true;
var folder = new air.File(path);
if ((!folder.exists) || (overwrite)) {
if (folder.exists) {
folder.deleteDirectory(true);
if (useWorkaround) {
var storeFolder = air.File.applicationStorageDirectory;
var folderName = FileUtil.getLastFolder(path);
var tempFolder = storeFolder.resolvePath(folderName);
var parentFolder = folder.parent;
if (!parentFolder.exists) {
FileUtil.createFolder(parentFolder.nativePath,false);
if (tempFolder.exists) {
tempFolder.deleteDirectory(true);
tempFolder.createDirectory();
tempFolder.moveTo(folder,true);
else {
folder.createDirectory();
FileUtil.getLastFolder = function(path) {
path += "";
for (var i=path.length-1;i>-1;i--) {
var tmpChr = path.substr(i,1);
if ((tmpChr == "/") || (tmpChr == "\\")) {
return path.substr(i+1);
return "";
You can use this method instead of createDirectory(). So for
example, newFolder.createDirectory() would be
FileUtil.createFolder(newFolder.nativePath,true).
Hope this helps.
Ken