Actually it could be worse. Because you're dealing with network latency and the chance the connection could be dropped, it's not as predictable as dealing with the local file system.
My suggestion would be to use queued implementation. Log into the FTP and get the full contents of the directory. For each Directory, push the path into an array of directories to visit and all the files into a download array. Than when you've finished gathering all the files for download, you can begin recreating the folder structure and downloading the files into their proper directories. I used the same implementation for a webspider to generate sitemaps and it worked *way* faster than the recursive method I had initially came up with. Cheers, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 22, 2006 1:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Get Entire Directory Tree via FTP Well, in the sometimes you have to do what you have to do category ... it can't be much worse than recursively deleting an entire folder structure which CF does not allow us to do either. That was why I asked if there were any better ideas for doing this when all I have is an FTP connection to this folder structure and I need to download the entire thing and parse it. Thanks -- Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233172 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
