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>Hi,
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>I certainly can't open the stream in .Net as simply as with Notepad !
>Something like:

StreamReader file = new StreamReader("D:\\Tmp\\Alternate.XML:Zone.Identifier");

gives exception:
>"The given path's format is not supported."
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>There's a solution here with source code:http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/ntfsstreams.aspx
>Haven't looked at it closely but it's not trivial......

Thanks - I'll have a look at that - and will probably end up writing my own stuff. I'll keep you informed - don't hold your breath, I have an admininstrative Priority Interrupt - need to get a bunch of invoices out today

And I agree - the DeleteFile() is too simple - not much fun in it