Hi Colin

What about uploading the new file using a different filename and then renaming it by FTP?

You will have to erase the old file before you can rename the new one and I think that will also right away solve your access checking issue, cuz you should get an error here when the file is currently in use.

HTH
Markus

>Sergey
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>All that worked great - thanks a lot.
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>I have another question.
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>I need to upload a file into a live directory but the upload using ADSL takes 4 minutes. That means that the file is not going to be available for those 4 minutes.
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>Can I using FTP upload into a working directory and then copy from that working directory into my live directory?
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>Is there any way I can detect that the files is currently being accessed by someone else?
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>Thanks
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>
>Colin