Hi Jim,

I think that they won't do anything about it. Because in a lot of places they state "If you want data integrity, buy SQL Server" (not exactly those words, of course). And for shared acces to a Word or Excel document, is enough.
A server component to do I/O stuff would be great, but, again, we will never see this.
So I've choosed a database server, but a "poor man database server"( I mean a free one), not SQL Server. All these problems just dissapeared where I've ported the app.

Have a nice day.

PS: (off topic), can you please tell me what SNIP means?

>Hi Dorin,
>SNIP
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>While I agree with you that MS (and manufacturers) need to pay more attention to data integrity when it comes to network components/network data handling, I think too that a MAIN cause of many (VFP) data integrity problems is the design of the Windows OS cacheing mechanism (more below).
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>MS **needs** to address these eventualities in order to protect a system's integrity and, to date, they have done far too little in this regard.
>
>cheers