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Delete All FIles In A Folder

Contributor ,
Jul 27, 2006 Jul 27, 2006

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Hello,

I am would like to use cffile to delete all files in a directory every night to clean up pdf files that were created during the day. Is there a way to delete all files with naming each one? What would go in the file path?

<cffile action = "delete" file = "full_path_name">

Gary

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Jul 27, 2006 Jul 27, 2006

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You can use cfdirectory to get a name of the files in the directory. Something like:

<cfset myDir = "c:\PDFs\" />
<cfdirectory action="list" name="qDir" directory="#myDir#" />
<cfloop query="qDir">
<cfif qDir.type IS "file" >
<cffile action="delete" file="#myDir##qDir.name#" />
</cfif>
</cfloop>

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Jul 27, 2006 Jul 27, 2006

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It may be easier to just delete the directory using <cfdirectory action="delete" directory="dir_name" />

Then create a new empty one with the same name right afterwards.

good luck,
Mike

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Oct 31, 2019 Oct 31, 2019

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...13 years later...

I like Mike's solution, but sometimes the directory functions are weird in that after you delete, then createa  new one, it throws an error saying that hte directory already exists. Even after checking for existence.

FWIW, I'm using directoryExists(), directoryDelete(), and directoryCreate(), rather than <cfdirectory>.

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Nov 02, 2019 Nov 02, 2019

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Myka wrote:

... sometimes the directory functions are weird in that after you delete, then createa  new one, it throws an error saying that hte directory already exists. Even after checking for existence.

 

Myka, there may be a good reason why it is impossible to "delete, then create" a directory or file within the same request. Namely, the thread to delete the directory or file may still be active when ColdFusion runs the function to create.

The usual solution is to use a named lock to separate the delete and create operations:

<cflock name="abc123">

    <!--- delete operation --->

</cflock> 

<cflock name="abc123">

    <!--- create operation --->

</cflock> 

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