Try your suggestion and still having the same results.
The error message I'm getting is:
"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
process. (error 32)"
Jack Tumlin
Vice President Business Development
Millennium Software, Inc.
The Software Solutions Company
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.millsoftinc.com
At 04:36 PM 9/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Renaming a file takes some time. I'm not sure how the internals of CF
>work - does it send the renaming command off to Windows and then carry
>on it merry way? If so, it may be trying to delete a file that doesn't
>exist *yet* at that point in time.
>
>An idea: let a custom tag do the deleting - if the file exists, it gets
>deleted; otherwise, it trys again.
>
><cflock name="arexcelr" type="exclusive" timeout="10">
><cfif FileExists("e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.txt") is "Yes">
> <cffile action="RENAME" source="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.txt"
>
>destination="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.del">
> <cf_deleteFile file="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.del">
></cfif>
></cflock>
>
>The file, deleteFile.cfm:
><cfif fileExists(attributes.file)>
> <cffile action="DELETE" file="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.del">
><cfelse>
> <cf_deleteFile file="#attributes.file#">
></cfif>
>
>
>---
>Billy Cravens
>Web Development, EDS
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jack Tumlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:01 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Problem with CFFILE
>
>
>I having a problem with a piece of code that checks for the existence of
>a
>file, renames the file, and then deletes the file. The code is run in a
>child window after the user clicks the submit button on the parent
>window.
>The problem occurs when a user closes the child window while the thread
>is
>running and then clicks the submit button on the parent window again.
>
>The message appears on the NT Server saying that the file is missing. I
>have tracked it down to the cffile action="RENAME" statement in the code
>
>below. It appears that the first thread is still processing the delete
>when
>the second thread is checking for the existence of the file. The first
>thread then finishes and the second thread tries to rename the now
>non-existence file and the error occurs.
>
>Is there something I'm missing with the CFLOCK statement. Also, this is
>not
>happening all the time. There is some sort of timing issue. I have read
>where a delete on a NT Server does not happen right away. So, my
>question
>has anybody run into a similar problem and came up with a fix?
>
>Here is the code:
>
><cflock name="arexcelr" type="exclusive" timeout="10">
><cfif FileExists("e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.txt") is "Yes">
> <cffile action="RENAME" source="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.txt"
>
>destination="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.del">
> <cffile action="DELETE" file="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.del">
></cfif>
></cflock>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jack Tumlin
>Vice President Business Development
>Millennium Software, Inc.
>The Software Solutions Company
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>www.millsoftinc.com
>
>
>
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