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rcs_ — 2004-06-29T11:28:14

In Cold Fusion MX 6.0, the value of the CFFILE tag parameter FILEFILE:

1) *must* be a field of scope FORM,
2) will always be overwritten with the value of the web server's SERVER-INF/temp directory, *even if copied to another variable* (even a session variable !)
3) the vales of cffile.clientfile, etc. will be undefined if the file is not of the appropriate MIME type or the tag does not execute successfully

As to the SERVER-INF/temp chewing up space, I'm not seeing this in MX 6.0 updater 3 so far.

We can't use MX 6.1 because our applications use the TIMEOUT parameter with CFQUERY, which doesn't work.

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jrunrandy — 2004-04-06T06:04:57

Thanks. Good tip. Also, in general you can delete the entire SERVER-INF/temp directory (when CF is down, of course) with no ill effects.

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walshd — 2004-04-05T17:34:35

FYI

The folder that is used to store files during a cffile upload can collect large files. The file names start with neotmp and then some #.

C:\CFusionMX\runtime\servers\default\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\ (default location)

I have seen this directory chew up disk space.

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onebaldman — 2003-04-22T23:15:00

Remember ( I didn't see it documented throughout the docs) that you can't use # signs in the formfield attribute just pass it without them (cffile upload).

Cf throws the following error
No File found in field file

and has this as it's dump

C:\CFusionMX\runtime\servers\default\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\neotmp4162.tmp example # with neotmp could be anything.

(in hopes that Google caches it for someone down the road getting the same bs that I did.)

Robby

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hlichtin — 2003-03-10T14:21:00

A bug has been entered against the makeunique problem.

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johnm@aiaa.org — 2003-02-19T15:04:00

As of 19 February 2003 the CFFILE tag has a bug in what it returns as status parameters. The CFFILE.serverFileName status parameter returns the incorrect value if the attribute nameConflict = "MakeUnique" is set and the server actually makes a unique value. Instead of returning the new, unique, filename without the extension it returns the original file name (CFFILE.clientFileName). To get around this you can use this code (use the variable vFileServerName instead of CFFILE.serverFileName):

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h2oman — 2002-06-19T21:13:00

Don't forget you can use cgi.content_length variable to check the size of the file before executing the cffile tag.