ASP.NET publish trying to copy a non-existant file

Question

I'm trying to publish an ASP.NET project in VS2010, and am getting the following error:

Copying file bin\CKFinder.pdb to obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\bin\CKFinder.pdb failed. Could not find file 'bin\CKFinder.pdb'.

I had tried using a trial version of CKFinder (with CKEditor), but I backed it out. I removed all references to CKFinder, including the folders and the references - or so I thought.

Why is this error coming up? Ideas?

Answer 1

Update: I went into Project --> Package/Publish Settings, and clicked "Exclude generated debug symbols." The project began publishing with no issue.

Update #2 (this is probably the better answer): I tried to publish as debug instead of release (yes, I wanted to keep the debug features in this particular release), and the error came up again. It turned out that I did not exclude the CKfinder.dll from the project. Once I did so, it ran with no problem.