Thank you for your reply Craig. This is very helpfull.
Sincerely,
LC.
>The reason it's slow is that the directory contains so many files, using
>java will probably be faster but it will still be awfully slow with a
>directory that has 120k + files in it. I don't think java file objects
>can be filtered to only choose the 1st 5k files, e.g.
>
>File dir = new File("c:\\directory");
>String files[] = dir.listFiles();
>
>This will return an array of ALL files in a directory, which would very
>probably be just about as slow as cfdirectory when the directory has
>that many files in it.
>
>It would however be fairly trivial to loop from 1 to files.length() and
>use file[index].renameTo(newDir) to move the files, but you still have
>the problem of retrieving the 120k + files into the array, which is
>where your speed problems come from.
>
>I'll whack together a test class for you if you want, but it may not
>help much. You would be better off looking at the process that creates
>the emails in the 1st place, perhaps it could create them in a new dir
>for every 5k emails, name the dirs something incremental, and then every
>X minutes, move the content of the oldest dir into the smtp pickup dir.
>Should be a much faster approach but it I guess it all depends on wether
>you have control over the process that creates the mails.
>
>Craig.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: 04 July 2003 22:02
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: i need help on this
>
>
>> I think you didnt got it. I have to move 5000 at a time, not all of
>> them
>at
>> once. That's why i'm having dificulty. I think i will look for some
>> exe
>to
>> help me on this.
>
>have you looked at any java to replace cfdirectory? plenty of examples
>in the java almanac:
>http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.io/GetFiles.html?l=find
>
>
>
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