At one of the usergroup sessions this week someone asked if there was a way to get file information (size, date time, etc.) easily using a function. I said they should use , but afterwards remembered that we did indeed add a new function to Scorpio called GetFileInfo() which returns a structure containing: canread canwrite ishidden lastmodified name parent path size type Which makes this a good opportunity to review some of the file i/o changes coming in Scorpio. For starters, if you have ever had to work with large text files in ColdFusion (maybe parsing a large CSV file) you'll know that doing so is very inefficient. You probably use code like this: ... This is slow for two reasons. Not only does ColdFusion read the entire file into memory in a variable all at once, but also looping through the file requires treating it as a list which involves lots of parsing which can also be resource intensive. Well, inefficient no more. In ColdFusion Scorpio you'll be able to replace the above code block with this: ... This code block open the file, reads one line at a time, and closes it when done. I actually used this myself recently in a ColdFusion code snippet that had to parse a massive tab delimited file, turning each line into a query row. Replacing the old with a new cut down processing time from several minutes to under 10 seconds. Oh, and although reading files line by line is the more common use case, you can also read by n characters at a time, like this: ... In addition to the enhancements, we've also added lots of new file i/o functions that you can use to access and manipulate files directly. The new functions include: FileClose() FileCopy() FileDelete() FileIsEOF() FileMove() FileOpen() FileRead() FileReadBinary() FileReadLine() FileSetAccessMode() FileSetAttribute() FileSetLastModified() FileWrite() GetFileInfo() IsImageFile() IsPDFFile()