Manual-Inclusive And Auto-Inclusive Physical Folders; The Project File - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION STUDIO 4.5-USING COLDFUSION STUDIO Use Manual

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Manual-inclusive and auto-inclusive physical folders

Physical folders can be divided into auto-inclusive and manual-inclusive.

The project file

Both physical and virtual folders point to files in your file system. These pointers, or
references, are contained in the project file.
The project file is created and saved (with an apf extension) when you create a new
project. As you make changes to your project's contents, the project file is updated
automatically. If you rename the project file, the old file is deleted.
The project file is stored in an XML-defined WDDX format. This format can be difficult
to read and it is not the ideal location from which to view a list of project files. The
VTOM scripting engine functionality is more suited to this task. See Scripting the
Visual Tools Object Model in the online Help references for more information on the
VTOM scripting engine.
Manual-inclusive folders require you to specify which files in the mapped
directory should be included in the folder. For example, you might have a folder
with ten files in it, only three of which are necessary for your Web site. You can
create a manual-inclusive folder, add just those three files, and ignore the other
seven.
Auto-inclusive folders include every file in the mapped directory by definition.
You can specify which file types you would like to include (for example, all the
HTML files) but you cannot specify individual files to include. Auto-inclusive
folders are automatically updated when you add files to or delete files from the
mapped directory.
Changing a folder from auto-inclusive to manual-inclusive retains all files by
default.
Note The location of a manual-inclusive folder cannot be changed.