>Ed,
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>Have you tried a VFP process that opens the files maybe with USE or fopen()? It might have to be a non-VFP process VB/VC++ to read the file.
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I've posted code using the Shell SHFileOperation() API, LLFIO in and out of VFP with no luck to date, and a bunch of buffer/cache flush calls. I have not tried an out of process concurrent copy; since copying to a floppy disk after VFP ends isn't enough, I'm sceptical.

SCSI + VSS is completely reliable.