'Visual Studio publish error code 0x80070005 -- Bootstrap license

Out of nowhere, after multiple successful Publishes, Visual Studio 2022 gives me an error when I try to publish to Azure. It's looking on my D: disk for a Bootstrap license. There is no D: disk.

I hit this a couple weeks, not with Publish but just building. I solved it eventually by deleting my bin folder. That's not working today.

Looking around, others have hit something similar, but did not seem to be my situation.

2021-12-01: no clues out there as to how to solve?

Here is log output:

Unable to perform the operation ("Create File") for the specified directory ("D:\home\site\wwwroot\wwwroot\Identity\lib\bootstrap\LICENSE"). This can occur if the server administrator has not authorized this operation for the user credentials you are using. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS_TO_SITE_FOLDER. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS_TO_SITE_FOLDER. The error code was 0x80070005. Access to the path 'D:\home\site\wwwroot\wwwroot\Identity\lib\bootstrap\LICENSE' is denied. at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.NativeMethods.RaiseIOExceptionFromErrorCode(Win32ErrorCode errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.FileStreamEx.CreateInstance(String path, FileMode fileMode, FileAccess fileAccess, FileShare fileShare, Nullable`1 fileLength) at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.FilePathProviderBase.Add(DeploymentObject source, Boolean whatIf) Publish failed to deploy.

2>Build failed. Check the Output window for more details.
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

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Solution 1:^[1]

I'm having the same exact issue, looks like the issue is caused by VS 2022. I think it is taking a file that has no extension named License and mistaking it for a folder. I was able to fix the issue by deleting the License file and the folder that was created on my web server by VS 2022 on deploy.

Solution 2:^[2]

I fixed it by doing the following:

Open the Azure Portal
Open the App Service page
Open the Console blade
In the console, navigate to D:\home\site\wwwroot\wwwroot
Remove the Identity folder with rmdir /s /q Identity.

Solution 3:^[3]

Got it fixed thanks to MS support. Somehow server folder wwwroot structure had been corrupted.

Solution 4:^[4]

I was having similar issues regarding that file when deploying to azure app services.

I was able to fix the issue by ensuring that "Remove additional files at destination" was enabled.

Azure Portal:

Solution 5:^[5]

We're publishing to a folder and what fixed it for us was setting "Delete existing files" to true in the Publish Dialog.

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