[thesite] [BUG] Author pic deleting?

[.jeff]

matt,

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> From: matthew garrett
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> I've had large problems with CF file uploads from users
> with that browser/OS in the past.
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same here -- constantly.

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> My question is, what does the code look like for
> deciding whether to attempt the file upload? I believe
> that IE associates a temp file with the input file tag
> even if you have not specified a file. So if the cffile
> tag tries to upload that file, and there's actually
> nothing really there... then it could delete the
> existing file to replace it with... nothing.  is that
> part of it?
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in order to know that something needs to be uploaded, i'm simply checking
the trimmed length of the file upload field's value.  if it's greater than 0
i delete the existing pic and upload the new one (or try, it seems).

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> I was actually never able to solve it, just thought it
> was worth mentioning.
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i've never been able to solve it either.  it's very frustrating.

thanks,

.jeff

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