I am doing a very similar thing. Folks put their thumbnails in a folder, and every night (free) software called Cobian Backup (http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm) automatically uploads the new files via FTP.
Using CF scheduler, the files are then read in by recursively going through the uploaded directories and adding the files and information to a database. Next I use image CFC to resize for thumbnails and for a watermarked image. I am using CFX_Watermark next to put in the watermark. (I wanted to use CFIMAGE, but I found it was too slow and wasn't getting through images fast enough--between 20 and 200 images get processed every night) Hope this helps... -----Original Message----- From: Dave l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Image question... Right now I can do it 2 different ways.. one is to upload each one separately or I can ftp into the site and just upload the images then in the admin I can choose to upload one or run scripts if I have already uploaded them. If I have ftp'd them then it does run them 25 at a time, it starts with cfdirectory loop grabs the next images enters the info in db then makes the larger image and puts into into the large folder, then the thumnail and put it into the thumbs folder then moved that original image to a saved folder. I don't delete them at that point because I need to keep the original ones for downloading but the girl whos site is is then goes in and picks out the ones she wants and the rest get deleted and then the good ones zipped up and then the originals are deleted to save space. So to answer your ?.. it could but I guess it is just as easy to watermark them b4 hand. I run them through iwatermark and takes about 15 seconds to do 200 images but there are other sites where they may add a few pix a week where that would work. >Could you use a recursive routine to process, say, 25 images, have a >delay, then run the routine again on images that were not processed the >first or preceding runs, allowing the server a chance to "recover" from >each run until all images are processed? > >Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:295885 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
