Ed,

This particular bug seems particularly frightening. Even after reading through a couple of long threads, I'm still not sure exactly when the problem occurs.

Is the problem with both W2K professional AND server (assuming you are working locally on the machine)? If it only happens with local drives, can you create a network share and use it locally (i.e., map to your own shared drive) in order for Win2K to treat it like a network drive?

Are FORM / REPORT files the only files corrupted?

Does it only happen to those VFP files residing on the IDE media (not copies of those files that can be made onto removable media before the system is shut down)?

Does it only happen if you exit VFP and then shut the system within a short period of time?... or is the cached data NEVER written to disk no matter how long you wait between the end of a VFP session and system shutdown?

Does it also occur if you hibernate your system (which I do all the time), and then start it back up?

I'm really astounded that this delayed-write bug has only been reported with VFP, especially since Win2K is supposed to be a mission critical OS. One post mentioned that VFP apparently doesn't update the file date when an SCX file is saved... but how does VFP control that? (I have not seen this behavior). Isn't file date maintenance an OS file-system responsibility?

Thanks for any feedback on this.

- Mark