How to remove a folder from a project and avoid deleting files on file system?

Here's what I've done to stop the massive images folder from the site I'm working on appearing in CFB (and slowing everything down).

I moved the images folder completely out of my project root.

I then made a mapping in the jrun-web.xml file so the browser still sees the folder there.

e.g.

If my project is in C:\webroot\project and I browse to http://localhost/project to view it.

I move the images folder from C:\webroot\project\images to C:\<other_location>\project_images

Then in <CF_ROOT>\wwwroot\WEB-INF\jrun-web.xml I add:

  <virtual-mapping>

     <resource-path>/project/images</resource-path>

     <system-path>C:\<other_location>\project_images</system-path>

  </virtual-mapping>

Restart CF and now I can browse to http://localhost/project/images but the folder itself is not part of the CFB project.

The location of jrun-web.xml is for if you are using CF standalone. Not sure where it is for multiple sites in JRun configuration.

Also this is my own local dev machine. If you are doing this on a shared server, it probably isn't practical.

Hope that is some help,

Andy

Sounds like a good feature to add to CFB to me.  Maybe raise an enhancement request: http://cfbugs.adobe.com/bugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html

I'd vote for it.

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Adam

Donnie,

I don't know of a simple way to remove the folder from your project (I can think of some "hacky" ways that you'd probably not like).  But as far as your 10 minute startup time...have you disabled "Refresh on Startup"?  Preferences->General->Startup and Shutdown.  If not, this can really slowdown your startup time.  But I think this also means that you might have missing files if they've been added since the last time you opened CFB.