>>>I need to run my foxpro application in a environment with more than 10 users so i put the dbf files on a ubuntu file server.
>>>I need to scan a directory on the file server from a windows PC, to see if there are temporary files created by the users.
>>>What happens is that the file is created but the adir function takes several seconds before seeing them. It answer 0 files.
>>>I tried to create a file and run the adir directly from the user pc and the command works fine.
>>>It looks like Ubuntu hides the folder content for a while.
>>>Hope my english was good enough :)
>>>thanks to all
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>>Have you tried Sys(2000)?
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>Hi Tore, i found a trick!
>If I keep a windows' explorer open on the target folder then it works fine.
>Windows' misteries!!
>
>Thanks for your reply

As long as it works...! It's probably a registry setting you can change, but which?