>>This is smart, but it may fail in several situations: virtual memory mapped to that drive, compressed drives/files,
>>other processes writing to the disk in the same time, etc.
>>
>Vlad,
>
>I thought about, especially considering VFP's own use of temporary files. However, considering that this is not a lengthy process, it has a low degree of probability. One might make a second call to confirm the first.

I wouldn't base my program on low probability in this case. Mainly because the probability is not low. :)

Vlad