Coldfusion8 creates "backups" wwwroot directory

Report · Sep 30, 2008

I am running CF8 virtual server on a PC. My C: drive, where ColdFusion is located seems to have no storage space left. I went from having 200GB of free space to 127mb in a week!!!

When I looked at my wwwroot directory, where my client files are located, there were 2 NEW files "wwwroot 2008-09-27 23;22;26" and another with the date 2008-09-09 23;22;26

Inside of these directories were nest 9 complete copies of wwwroot (one inside the next) eating up all my free disk space.

I tried numerous methods of deleting these files and stopped the server services by running startup -> cmd -> del
The files would not delete

I then repeated this method in SAFE MODE, but still to no avail

I have manually deleted many of the files by starying in the deepest nested directory, but many of the files will not delete (they are probably pointers, because a lot of them have 0KB size, but some have a few MBs (mostly image files) and I cannot delete them. I also tried to MOVE the files to another disk. They "cannot be moved".

I NEED HELP
1 - why is this happening
2 - what can I do to stop this creation of backup files of the jobs I am working on
3 - how can I delete the seemingly unmovable file

any thoughts or solutions will be greatly appreciated

thanks

jb in LA

Report · Sep 30, 2008

What version of Windows?
What are you using to develop with? (Dreamweaver, CFeclipse, etc)
Are you doing any <cffile> stuff in your code?

Do you have any backup jobs setup to automatically run? Have you installed any backup software recently (before the 2008-09-09 date?)

Coldfusion doesn't duplicate your wwwroot directory, unless you wrote code to explicitly do it.

Report · Sep 30, 2008

windows: XP Pro
V: 2002
Service Pack 3

Coldfusion 8 Developer Edition (free edition)

Dreameaver CS3 as a user interface to .cfm files

I just did a directory find (in Dreamweaver) for a source file <cffile>
returned: Not Found in 14093 documents - it also searched the rogue directories: wwwroot 2008-09-27 23;22;26

the only backup software I use is Cobian 9 - and it is not set as a startup file (msconfig)
no other drives or directories have been acting this way - that's why I thought it might be CF8 developer

I am a CF novice, but I have not written any code that would cause this

thanks for the fast reply your help is appreciated