>Hi everybody,
>
>I have done some testing on this. And here are my conclusions:
>
>I can consistently repeat the problem in any Win2K Prof. Computer.
>We have the problem since we upgraded the PC's to Win2K.
>
>I repeat it like this:
>Enter VFP6
>in the command window type: Modi Form test
>Drop a textbox in the form
>Press CTRL+W (It's the same whatever method I use to save the form)
>Press the reset button of the computer.
>When Win2k comes back, I enter VFP and the files test.scx/t are trashed.
>
>
>This happens in 10 out of 10 times I repeat this steps and I tried them in 4 different computers.
>
>
>Other conclusions:
>
>- All the forms that were opened and saved in the last 2 hours (this number is obviously not precise) get trashed if the power fails on Win2K.
>- FRX/T are affected as well (I imagine VCX/T also).
>- The write cache property of the disk doesn't affect this behavior.
>- SP1 doesn't affect this behavior.
>
>
>So, without a UPS the probability of loosing work if the power goes down is very high.
>I hope Microsoft adresses this problem shortly.

Francisco,

I can only duplicate some of the time now, and I don't know what has changed. I have an open incident with MSFT, but so far no help. They have asked me to disable Norton Anti virus, but I can't reproduce the corruption every time so the test is inconclusive. Are you running NAV? If so, can you diable or uninstall it, and try to reproduce the corruption. Please let me know ASAP if you can, by e-mail at steve@winadvgroup.com as well as here.

I have had good luck running a product called Flashback from Alladin Systems www.alladinsys.com, which maintains an incremental copy of each save. It allows me to go back to a previous saved version, which means I can recover a corrupted form to the last save. MSFT also wants me to disable this, but I know the corruption started before I installed Flashback. I assume you are not running this software, but please confirm it for me.

Thanks,