Name conflict with CFFILE COPY

[jarla]

HI!
Once again little problem
I have a gallery-page and customers can send their photos to the gallery also via normal email. Coldfusion use CFX_IMAP4 -tag to check specified mailbox every five minutes and it works good. BUT: Every customer have, of course, their own folder for pictures. No problem, I´ve programmed script which loops over every message, take all (picture)attachments and move them from attachments -folder to customer´s imagefolder. But very often customer use, for example, digital camera which use the same system to save images. So then customer can send images with a same name.
So: I need to check if there already is a image with a same name in the destination folder before I do the CFFILE ACTION="COPY" -script. If there is, then new file would be renamed to imagename(1) etc. before the copy.
I hope you understood my problem, this has been a hard day...

 

[ecobb]

Why don't you just use the "nameconflict" attribute of the cffile tag? That's what it's made to do, Skip, Overwrite, or MakeUnique if it finds a name conflict.

Hope This Helps!

Ecobb

"Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer." - Homer Simpson

 

[jarla]

Thanks Ecobb, but in this situation it´s not usable because all attachments go first to same "attachment" -folder. After that the script use the CFFILE ACTION="COPY" to copy attachments from attachmentfolder to customer´s own imagefolder. "COPY" -action don´t have option to use the "nameconflict" -parameter. Or do it?

 

[ecobb]

Yes, you are correct. "COPY" does not have the "nameconflict" attribute. Oops, sorry about that!

OK, maybe you could try something like this:

This will give you a list of all files in the destination folder

<cfdirectory action=&quot;LIST&quot; directory=&quot;C:\whatever\&quot; name=&quot;ImageList&quot;>


Now, I'm assuming you already have the name of the image you're tying to load set as a variable somewhere. Just loop through the above list and have CF react accordingly:

<cfloop index=&quot;i&quot; list=&quot;ImageList&quot;>
<cfif i = ImageVarName>
...code to change image name...
</cfif>
</cfloop>


Then, once you've renamed your image (if you need to) you can copy it over. I know this is a little vague, but I would need to see your code to be able to get it exact.


Hope This Helps!

Ecobb

&quot;Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.&quot; - Homer Simpson

 

[wbochar]

Why not do :

<CFIF fileExists(&quot;C:\filename.ext&quot>

Duplicate File rename it to somehting different

<CFELSE>

Ok, continue with copy commands

</CFIF>

 

[jarla]

Thanks for all instructions! I decided to name all images that come by email, again with dynamically generated filename like this:
<cfset newname=&quot;#timeformat('#Now()#', &quot;HHmmss&quot##randnumber#_#attachmentsent#&quot;>
Then the code use that #newname# to copy the file to customer´s imagefolder. When I tried to use those &quot;nameconflict&quot; -methods I was stuck in this situation:
1. Customer send file called &quot;image.jpg&quot; by email
2. Next day same customer send different image with the same &quot;image.jpg&quot; -name. No problem, program find that it´s already used and it renames it with a name &quot;image(1).jpg&quot;
3. Next time same customer use again the same &quot;image.jpg&quot; -name when he/she is sending file by email. Well, program find that &quot;image.jpg&quot; is already in use and it renames it like &quot;image(1).jpg&quot;..... then it overwrites another picture.

So it should check the folder also after first renaming. After all, that dynamic filename works great