Brook Davies wrote:
>Good question. I recall seeing this happen also. I thin we solved it like this:
>
><cfif trim(formfield) is not "" and listlast(formfield,".") is not "tmp">
> <cffile action="upload" blah blah>
></cfif>
>
>bd
>
I used: ...and Find(".tmp",form.fieldname) eq 0> etc. Is the browser
trying to help me in some way? Is the system somehow making assumptions
about where a file might go? Does it concactenate the temp directory and
the file and hope for the best? Not a burning issue, obviously, just
wondering.
>
>
>At 05:06 PM 26/04/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Trim() was the first thing I tried. But the value of the field was not a
>>space or carriage return, but something like c:WINNT\TEMP\SomeFile.tmp
>>which I thought was weird. How was a path existing on the server get
>>into the form field?
>>
>>Brook Davies wrote:
>>
>>>On the mac, often a carriage return is appended to the form fields, so the
>>>check to see if the field is empty will not work.
>>>
>>>Try using a Trim() on the upload field.
>>>
>>>bd
>>>
>>>At 04:48 PM 26/04/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm enhancing a record edit screen that includes images. If you opened a
>>>>record for editing and saved it without changing the images, it was
>>>>generating a "CFFILE can't find the file to uploard" error on a mac. In
>>>>the code, there was a conditional if form.image is '' then do nothing,
>>>>but it was still trying to upload something. When I had the page output
>>>>the formfield, it contained a path to a .tmp file in the server's temp
>>>>direcotdy under WINNT. Anyone ever hear of this?
>>>>
>>>>Doug Jordon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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