Good question. I recall seeing this happen also. I thin we solved it like this:
<cfif trim(formfield) is not "" and listlast(formfield,".") is not "tmp">
<cffile action="upload" blah blah>
</cfif>
bd
At 05:06 PM 26/04/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Trim() was the first thing I tried. But the value of the field was not a
>space or carriage return, but something like c:WINNT\TEMP\SomeFile.tmp
>which I thought was weird. How was a path existing on the server get
>into the form field?
>
>Brook Davies wrote:
> > On the mac, often a carriage return is appended to the form fields, so the
> > check to see if the field is empty will not work.
> >
> > Try using a Trim() on the upload field.
> >
> > bd
> >
> > At 04:48 PM 26/04/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >>I'm enhancing a record edit screen that includes images. If you opened a
> >>record for editing and saved it without changing the images, it was
> >>generating a "CFFILE can't find the file to uploard" error on a mac. In
> >>the code, there was a conditional if form.image is '' then do nothing,
> >>but it was still trying to upload something. When I had the page output
> >>the formfield, it contained a path to a .tmp file in the server's temp
> >>direcotdy under WINNT. Anyone ever hear of this?
> >>
> >>Doug Jordon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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