I won't pretend to speak for Adobe - but the thinking MAY have been - with the upload action, you have no idea what the file is - therefore name conflicts may occur more often. With a copy you _do_ know the file.
As a general FYI, I'm sure you know there are multiple ways to handle this problem yourself. You can use a UUID-based file name, which is ugly, but unique, or if you can't copy over foo.txt because it exists, try foo1, foo2, fooN until it doesn't exist. On 9/19/07, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I admittedly haven't used cffile that much in the past-just here and > there. I was fiddling with something today and came to a startling > revelation (which I'm sure most of you already know): > > You can't use the nameconflict attribute with action="copy". Well you > can-it's simply ignored. I was like, "WTF, over?" > > I made my usual assumption that there is a REALLY good reason and I just > didn't know what it was-- so I Googled for a while hoping to uncover > this eye-opening gem of truth. > > > > Yeah, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Oh, there's a Livedocs comment here > and there where someone mentions it, and SEVERAL code examples where > people illegally tried to use nameconflict with action="copy", but > nowhere did I find any explanation of WHY copying files always > overwrites destination files of the same name. > > > > The benefit of being able to control name conflicts when copying files > seems so obvious. I mean, how dare CF assume I wish to always overwrite > when copying? :-) And then they tease me by having a nameconflict > attribute which only works for upload. > > Yes, yes, I am familiar with fileexists() and all that, but I use CF to > make things easier not harder. > > What's worse, is no error is thrown when you try to use nameconflict > with action="copy". Have you ever accidentally typed something like: > > <cfloop collection="#url#" item="i" index="j"></cfloop> > > Whoa, big error message in your face. But no-not with cffile. It just > silently ignores the nameconflict attribute leading you to believe its > being used. > > > > So please fill me in. Is there some underlying reason why copy always > overwrites, or have enough people simply not requested the enhancement? > > > > ~Brad > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288831 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
