Thanks Barney, I'm already catching it. I was wondering if there's a way to force delete it somehow - any process that is still hanging onto it would likely be CF or the webserver. On the other hand, how can I find out what's holding onto it? I know how to do this on OSX...
Cheers Stefan On 7 Dec 2009, at 15:40, Barney Boisvert wrote: > > If you just want to silently ignore, wrap with CFTRY..CFCATCH and > nothing in the CFCATCH. Typically windows has this problem if another > process has the file open for some reason (or just hasn't cleaned up > it's handles). > > cheers, > barneyb > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Stefan Richter <ste...@flashcomguru.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> what may be causing the following error and what - if anything - could I do >> to prevent it? This is on a Windows server with CF8. >> ColdFusion could not delete the file C:\Inetpub\...\folder\file.ppt for an >> unknown reason. >> >> This happens when I run >> <cfdirectory action="delete" directory="C:\Inetpub\...\folder" recurse="yes"> >> >> Regards, >> >> Stefan >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:328907 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
