Re: Copy a folder and its contents to another location

[Ian Skinner]

surfmad1 wrote:
> Can anyone help an new user!
>
>  Basically I need to get Coldfusion to copy a folder called "project" and its 
> contents these include folders and excel files from my C: drive to another 
> folder called "jobs" located on my C: drive. I then need to rename the 
> "project" folder using data from a sql database.
>
>  I've tried using "cffile" copy which works if I want to copy a file such as an 
> excel file but it wont work when I try to copy a folder and its contents. 
>
>  Should I be using "cffile" or something else?
>
>  Many thanks for your help! 

ColdFusion does not have a 'copy folder' function.  This kind of batch 
file system processing is not really its purpose.

But you should be able to use if - if you so choose.  You will need to 
use a combination of <cfdiretory...> and <cffile...> tags with loops. 
You will have to read the directory, loop over the results moving each 
file and then process the directory again for a name change.