A path that starts with \\ is a UNC path. UNC paths can be funky as they are not necessarily real physical paths on your server but rather logical paths on a mapped device, like SAN.
UNC paths should work, in general. Sometimes permissions will be problematic with UNC paths but that shouldn't cause it to be an intermittent failure. You might have your sysadmin look at what account CF is running as and then try logging into the server as that account and look at permissions and visibility on those UNC paths from the point of view of the CF service. Judah On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Shannon Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I honestly don't know; it's coming from the global variable for all of our > applications. I guess I always assumed it had to do with mappings or > something, since we can't have a relative path here. I can definitely strip > it out and see if that solves the problem. > >> >>The specified directory attribute value >> \\blah\AppDev\ParisDocs\blah\docs\ >> >> What is the double \\ for? >> Sometimes it is taken as equivalent as one single \, but some other >> time it may not. >> This could explain why DirectoryExists says it doesn't but it is found >> when being create ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348999 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
