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Try this. <ul> <li>Save the image to the disk in a work area. It's best to save it to the work area that's on the same volume as the eventual destination. It's also best to put it in a separate directory.</li> <li>Start the transaction with the database.</li> <li>Insert your user.</li> <li>Rename the image file after the User ID.</li> <li>Commit the transaction.</li> </ul> What this does is it performs the riskiest operation first, the saving of the image. All sorts of things can happen here -- system can fail, disk can fill up, connection can close. This is (likely) the most time consuming of your operations, so it's definitely the riskiest. Once this is done, you start the transaction and insert the user. If the system fails at this time, your insert will be rolled back, and the image will be in the temporary directory. But for your real system, effectively "nothing has happened". The temporary directory can be cleaned using an automated feature (i.e. clean on restart, clean everything that's over X hours/days old, etc.). Files should have a very short time span in this directory. Next, rename the the image to its final place. File renames are atomic. They work or they do not. If the system after this, the user row will be rolled back, but the file will be in its final destination. However, if after restart someone tries to add a new user that happens to have the same user id as the one that failed, their uploaded image will simply overwrite the existing one -- no harm, no foul. If the user id can not be re-used, you will have an orphaned image. But this can reasonably be cleaned up once a week or once a month through an automated routine. Finally commit the transaction. At this point everything is in the right place.
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