If everything else fails: open the files only through shares and use my FAQ (Who opened which files) to find out if the files are still opened.

Vlad

>we pull text files into tables for processing nightly. The text files are downloaded by FTP from various machines. We need to be able to tell when the text files are closed by this process, because our processing can't work on these files until they are completely downloaded.
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>any ideas?