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CFFILE Write- How to make Unique if there's a conflict?

Any idea why CFFILE Write does not support making it unique but CFFile Upload does?

I'm using CFFILE Write to handle a GetHttpRequestData, and being able to support making it unique would be very helpful. Any ideas?

Solution

  • Well, it doesn't. You'll have to roll your own unique names by first checking if the file exists and if it does, then add on some additional character(s) and repeat check/add until you've found something unique.

    Alternatively, you always prepend something that ought to be fairly unique (e.g. date-time-incremental number).