Hi Pascal ---
This is one of the potential reasons I was leading to. Also, it can happen if some operating system process (like a backup, duplexing, mirroring) has got a hold of the file being written to.
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>What's the operating system?
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>On NT you can get that type of errors if the user's NT permissions
>to the file are read-only.
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>I have also seen something like this happen when a user went
>to change the file attributes to read-only by mistake.
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>HTH
>
>Pascal
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