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Hmmm. The client is very keen on performance in this scenario. Its a gov
dept.

I can see I'm going to have to do some metrics.

cheers Mr. Adrian. lovely work, as usual. Four Mars bars to you.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Adrian Lynch <[email protected]>wrote:

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> Not sure about overhead but it'll be a lot less code.
>
> Zip - One line with cfzip
>
> Unzip - One line with cfzip
>
> Delete - One line with cfdirectory recurse="true"
>
> Adrian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:dev-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Wild
> > Sent: 19 February 2009 12:18
> > To: Coldfusion Development
> > Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] moving entire directories
> >
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> > no, it would appear that jave is the same - I'd still have to move each
> > file
> > individually.
> >
> > I wonder if zipping up all the files, copying the zip, unzipping and
> > deleting the originals would have more overhead?
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Rich Wild <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > yea, stupid files.
> > >
> > > I like the zip idea, very creative. Interesting.
> > >
> > > I'm going to see if I can find any info on Java.io.File - surely that
> > can
> > > help me do this beautifully.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Adrian Lynch
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >
> > >> >- see footer for list info -<
> > >> Still not the answer you want, but if you do this:
> > >>
> > >> <cfdirectory action="CREATE" directory="/dir1/dir2/dir3">
> > >>
> > >> It'll create dir1 and dir2 if they don't already exist. So if you
> > can work
> > >> out what the lowest level directories are you'll get all the parent
> > ones
> > >> for
> > >> free.
> > >>
> > >> Not so sure about the files though.
> > >>
> > >> Or...
> > >>
> > >> ... how about zipping up the files and dirs you want to move and
> > then
> > >> unzipping in the new location? The benefit of this is that the files
> > and
> > >> dirs won't know a thing, they'll assume there was a little bit of an
> > >> earthquake or something. Files are so stupid sometimes!
> > >>
> > >> Shout if you find something else.
> > >>
> > >> Adrian
> > >>
> > >> > -----Original Message-----
> > >> > From: [email protected] [mailto:dev-
> > >> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Wild
> > >> > Sent: 19 February 2009 11:38
> > >> > To: Coldfusion Development
> > >> > Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] moving entire directories
> > >> >
> > >> > >- see footer for list info -<
> > >> > Yea, that's the scenario I'm trying to avoid it involves
> > individual
> > >> > cffile
> > >> > operations. I'm talking about thousands and thousands of them, all
> > >> > within
> > >> > nested dirs etc.
> > >> >
> > >> > It just seems so needlessly expensive, I/O wise.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Adrian Lynch
> > >> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > >- see footer for list info -<
> > >> > > On CF8 (I think it was introduced then), cfdirectory has the
> > recurse
> > >> > > attribute which means you don't have to do the logic yourself.
> > One
> > >> > query
> > >> > > loop and you can do a copy/move on each file and all the parent
> > dirs
> > >> > will
> > >> > > be
> > >> > > created for you.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Not exactly the answer you wanted but it does mean it's not as
> > bad as
> > >> > it
> > >> > > could have been...
> > >> > >
> > >> > > ... I think.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Adrian
> > >> > >
> > >> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > >> > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:dev-
> > >> > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Wild
> > >> > > > Sent: 19 February 2009 09:58
> > >> > > > To: Coldfusion Development
> > >> > > > Subject: [CF-Dev] moving entire directories
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > >- see footer for list info -<
> > >> > > > Morning,
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > I'm currently working on a project where an existing CMS
> > creates
> > >> > > > potentially
> > >> > > > thousands of directories (big site). Now, if an editor decided
> > that
> > >> > > > he/she
> > >> > > > wanted to change the location of a page, the nature of this
> > CMS
> > >> > > > (currently)
> > >> > > > is that it would have to get the directory and all its child
> > >> > > > directories and
> > >> > > > move them individually, which to me sounds like a lot of very
> > >> > > > unnecessary
> > >> > > > overhead.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Is there a way (using com objects or harnessing java etc) in
> > which
> > >> > we
> > >> > > > can
> > >> > > > simply move a top level directory without having to perform
> > >> > individual
> > >> > > > cffile operations on all the children?
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > CF8.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > ta
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Rich
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
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