Rob, Just out of curiosity, were these fresh, ground-up installs, or did you install 8.0.1 on top of your existing copy of 8?
Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com RobG wrote: > Me again. :) > > I've had to uninstall CF on three machines and reinstall to get back to > the pre-8.0.1 version (with just the pre-existing hotfixes installed). > This new update broke a LOT of stuff, and I'm wondering if anybody else > has noticed yet. > > First, there was the YUI-related issue that I posted about yesterday. > That was pretty minor. > > Next, I was working on a script that I've been dinking with for about a > month, that goes through a big directory of image files and checks their > pixel size and filesize, and alters them accordingly to save space. > > The first problem I noticed after doing the update was that if there > were more than about 70 files in the directory, JRUN would exit with a > strange error (I don't recall the specific one). It had worked just > fine prior to this (there are some 20,000 files in the directory I'm > testing on). > > So I made a directory with fifty files and continued fine-tuning things. > This is when I noticed the next problem. Half of the files (roughly) > were coming up "not found" by the CFImage tag, despite definitely existing. > > I experimented... was it the ones with spaces in their names? Nope. > Was it the ones that were uppercase? Nope. Lowercase? Nope. I could > find no rhyme or reason as to why this was happening. > > It also happened on another site that I run (on another server, which > also had the update) -- a message forum that I wrote. People who were > uploading photos to their profiles were suddenly unable to do so. I saw > lots of errors thrown due to "file not found" when the file clearly was > there. > > Finally I figured the best move was to roll back to pre-8.0.1. So I > uninstalled/reinstalled since Adobe didn't give us an Uninstall option. > Since that time, everything has gone back to normal and is working > just fine. > > Oh, I did go through the release notes very carefully to see if there > was anything mentioned that might tell why these problems started, but > there was nothing. > > So as of right now I'm advising everybody I know to NOT apply the 8.0.1 > update. > > Rob > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303031 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
