>I store some user preferences in .MEM files on the NT server. There are various good reasons for using a .mem file in this case.
>
>I had a problem with one user where the contents of the mem file were causing an error in my program so using Citrix server I remotely deleted the .mem file while the user concerned was logged off knowing that my program user module would recreate a "default" mem file when he logged in.
>
>Well, the mem file that got created was identical to the one I deleted!
>My program does a simple
>IF NOT FILE({username}.mem)
> SAVE TO ..... ALL LIKE ...
>ELSE
> RESTORE FROM...
>ENDIF
>
>If the OS is undeleting the file (say from cache) I would consider this a nasty OS bug. It's completely reproduceable. What do you think?
Any chance that he has a copy on the User machine which gets read at startup, and then is written to the NT system on shutdown? Just a thought ... doesn't really sound like an OS thing.
Bob
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