Deleting contents within a folder

[Damo Drumm]

Hi
Im trying to delete all the contents within a folder using coldfusion, but its deleting the actual folder each time

The contents of the folder contains be PDF's

has anyone any tips on deleting the contents and not the actual folder

Thanks

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[Barney Boisvert]

If you don't mind synchronizing, you can just delete the directory (as
you are now) and then recreate an empty one after you're done.
Otherwise you'll need to use CFDIRECTORY to get a list of the
contained files and delete them individually with CFFILE.

cheers,
barneyb

On Monday, November 9, 2009, Damo Drumm <damien.drumm@...> wrote:

>
> Hi
> Im trying to delete all the contents within a folder using coldfusion, but its deleting the actual folder each time
>
> The contents of the folder contains be PDF's
>
> has anyone any tips on deleting the contents and not the actual folder
>
> Thanks
>
>

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[LRS Scout]

Get a list of the files with cfdirectory action="list" then loop over the
files.

Delete the files with cffile action="delete"

-----Original Message-----
From: Damo Drumm [mailto:damien.drumm@...]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:07 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Deleting contents within a folder


Hi
Im trying to delete all the contents within a folder using coldfusion, but
its deleting the actual folder each time

The contents of the folder contains be PDF's

has anyone any tips on deleting the contents and not the actual folder

Thanks



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[Charles Sheehan-Miles-2]

cfdirectory action=list

loop through the list

cffile delete based on list contents

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Damo Drumm <damien.drumm@...>wrote:

>
> Hi
> Im trying to delete all the contents within a folder using coldfusion, but
> its deleting the actual folder each time
>
> The contents of the folder contains be PDF's
>
> has anyone any tips on deleting the contents and not the actual folder
>
> Thanks
>
>

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[JediHomer]

You could use <CFDirectory> to get the listings of the directory, then
loop over that calling FileDelete() on the results...

2009/11/9 Damo Drumm <damien.drumm@...>:

>
> Hi
> Im trying to delete all the contents within a folder using coldfusion, but its deleting the actual folder each time
>
> The contents of the folder contains be PDF's
>
> has anyone any tips on deleting the contents and not the actual folder
>
> Thanks
>
>

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[Robert Harrison-6]

Use cfdirectory to list the content of the directory. Then loop through the
contents and delete the files you don't want.

                <cfdirectory action="list" directory = "mydirectorypath\"
name="dirlist">

                <cfloop query="dirlist">
                        YOU COULD INSERT A TEST HERE TO SEE IF YOU NEED THE
FILE (E.G., It's referenced in a DB somewhere)
                        <cffile action="delete"
file="mydirectorypath\#dirlist.name#">
                </cfloop>




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-----Original Message-----
From: Damo Drumm [mailto:damien.drumm@...]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:07 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Deleting contents within a folder


Hi
Im trying to delete all the contents within a folder using coldfusion, but
its deleting the actual folder each time

The contents of the folder contains be PDF's

has anyone any tips on deleting the contents and not the actual folder

Thanks



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[Eric Cobb]

I agree with Barney just deleting the directory and recreating it.
Having to get a list of everything in the directory and then loop
through that list and delete each item one-by-one seems "dirty" to me.

That being said, if you do want to go the list/loop/delete route, I
would suggest using CF's java capabilities to do it. cfdirectory/cffile
can kill a CF server if there are a lot of files or the files are large.

I once tried the cfdirectory/cffile approach on a directory that
contained a large amount of images (about 2 gigs worth) and it croaked.
  I changed it to use Java and it was able to do it.

This should help:
http://www.cfgears.com/index.cfm/2009/5/19/Tapping-in-to-ColdFusions-underlying-Java-capabilities 



Thanks,

Eric Cobb
http://www.cfgears.com


Barney Boisvert wrote:

> If you don't mind synchronizing, you can just delete the directory (as
> you are now) and then recreate an empty one after you're done.
> Otherwise you'll need to use CFDIRECTORY to get a list of the
> contained files and delete them individually with CFFILE.
>
> cheers,
> barneyb
>
> On Monday, November 9, 2009, Damo Drumm <damien.drumm@...> wrote:
>> Hi
>> Im trying to delete all the contents within a folder using coldfusion, but its deleting the actual folder each time
>>
>> The contents of the folder contains be PDF's
>>
>> has anyone any tips on deleting the contents and not the actual folder
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>

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[Kevin Pepperman]

cflib has a function for this.

http://cflib.org/udf/deleteDirectory


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