your questions aside, why are you checking for a file existence in the part of code that runs only when the directory where you are checking for the file existence does not exist??? i suspect the main cause of your cf hanging troubles IS your temp directory 'hack'...
--- Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com Richard Steele wrote: > We have a service whereby users upload images to our website. We've designed > a flash player 8 upload system that uses cffile operations. > > However, if more than one user is uploading images at the same time, > coldfusion can hang and the coldfusion service has to be restarted. We are > NOT currently using cflock as we didn't want to slow down the system under > load but feel that this may be reason that: > 1. We are occasionally losing the temp directory > 2. ColdFusion hangs. > > Here's a summary of the cffile code that we use... > > <!--- this code is a hack. Occasionally the temp folder would completely > disappear and in its place there would appear a temp file. This code checks > for the existance of the temp folder, if not there, then it would delete the > temp file that's there in its place, and then it creates the temp folder ---> > <cfset TempStorage = ExpandPath("../../UserImages/Temp")> > > > <cfif DirectoryExists(tempStorage)> > > <cfelse> > <!--- See if the temp file exists, if so, delete it so that the temp > folder can be made ---> > <cfif fileexists(Expandpath("../../UserImages/Temp"))> > <cfset deletefile =ExpandPath("../../UserImages/Temp")> > <cffile action="delete" file="#deletefile#"> > </cfif> > <cfset xDirectory = ExpandPath("../../UserImages/Temp")> > <CFDIRECTORY ACTION="create" directory="#xDirectory#"> > </cfif> > > <!--- Next, we upload the image saving it with a unique filename ---> > <cffile action="UPLOAD" filefield="Filedata" > destination="#variables.TempStorage#" nameconflict="MakeUnique"> > > <!--- Then we move this file to the user's directory ---> > <cffile action="move" source="#variables.OldFilePath#" > destination="#variables.NewFilePath#"> > > Any advice as to why and where we should use cflock would be greatly > appreciated. Many thanks! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:296886 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
