CF Builder Debugger: reference to "E:\cf9_final\..." or "E:\cf9_updates_rc\..."

There are two things going on here.

First, these file name/path references are referring to CFML code in files that have been precompiled--a feature used relatively infrequently by users, but used often in CFML code distributed by Adobe. Most CF Admin CFML pages are precompiled, but that's not likely what you're hitting. Instead, a surprise for many is that several CFML "tags" are really deployed under the covers as CFML files (see \wwwroot\WEB-INF\cftags).

And if you ever have either an error in such files or somehow end up in them in the debugger, you will see this reference to the e: drive, but it represents the actual path where the source existed on the machine of the developer who "built" CF (before it was distributed per the installer to you).

As for how you could end up inside them in the debugger, well, again, some CFML tags are deployed as CFML files, so for instance if you "step into" a CFDUMP tag then I could see this happening. I'd hope that Adobe would detect and prevent that, but I can't recall if they do (and don't want to fire up a demo at the moment to confirm).

But let us know if any of this helps.

/charlie arehart

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