We use the Infopath/Sharepoint connection to share information between several locations of our company. We've noticed a strange phenomenon lately (although it has been happening since in 2007): sometimes, after altering the file, upon submission a form is saved as a totally blank .xml-file (0 kb, no info whatsoever in it). This appears to happen randomly, but it seems that most of the time there was a submission failure, stating something like:
InfoPath cannot submit the form.
An error occurred while the form was being submitted.
The form cannot be submitted to the following location: mysite/myfile.xml
The file is in use by another application or user.
We are investigating this, at the moment it happened 40 times on a total of 2500 files, and since we use versioning, it's not a huge problem, but indeed really annoying and the users' trust in the system isn't growing with these things happening.
does anyone recognize this, and even better knows what causes it and how to solve it?