I think that the images directory has to exist already before you do the CFFILE operation, in other words it won't create the directory for you.
-- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fawzi Amadu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:10 PM Subject: Re: CFFILE > Thanks for the info> I changed my code as follows: > > CODE: > > <cffile action="upload" > filefield="uploadProductIMAGE" > destination="C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\e-Ghana\images\" > nameconflict="makeunique"> > > and I get the following error message: > > > > Attribute validation error for tag CFFILE. > The value of the attribute destination, which is currently > "C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\e-Ghana\images\", is invalid. > > The error occurred in C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\e-Ghana\testFileUpload.cfm: > line 17 > > 15 : filefield="uploadProductIMAGE" > 16 : destination="C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\e-Ghana\images\" > 17 : nameconflict="makeunique"> > 18 : > 19 : <!--- make sure that file isn't more thatn 50k ---> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>From livedocs: >> >>destination: Pathname of directory in which to upload the file. If not >>an absolute path (starting with a drive letter and a colon, or a forward >>or backward slash), it is relative to the ColdFusion temporary >>directory, which is returned by the GetTempDirectory function. >> >> >>I have up written code to upload a file for my computer, but I am >>getting an error that I do not understand. I used >>destination="../images/"with the intention of saving the file in the >>images folder of root of my site. Please help, TIA >> >>CODE: >> >><cffile action="upload" >> filefield="uploadProductIMAGE" >> destination="../images/" >> nameconflict="makeunique"> >> >> >>ERROR MESSAGE: >> >>Attribute validation error for tag CFFILE. >>The value of the attribute destination, which is currently "../images/", >>is invalid. >> >>The error occurred in C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\e-Ghana\testFileUpload.cfm: >>line 15 >> >>13 : filefield="uploadProductIMAGE" >>14 : destination="../images/" >>15 : nameconflict="makeunique"> >>16 : >>17 : <!--- make sure that file isn't more thatn 50k ---> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309739 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
