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>With the problem you experienced with the XP loss of edits problem with MS Word with the write caching enabled, I have found it has a lot to do with the quality of the hardware components i.e. higher error rates with entry level components & virtually non existent with high end components.

Could well be cheap hardware, but it was home less than 24 hours at the time and it is part of a mirrored drive C: setup.
I've had this on another box, once running XP Home and once under XP Pro, and never again on either after turning it off.
Am I so lucky that all 3 HDs are defected?

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>>Hi Neil,
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>>I'd say that it should always be off, and not just for VFP applications, unless the HD adapter is the expensive type designed to retain the data after a sudden power stoppage auto-complete the writes during reboots.
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>>cheers
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>>>Hi,
>>>Below VFP9 yes, with VFP9 you can (supposedly) use the new Flush commands, we are still testing, so I can't confirm.
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>>>>Can't remember what was the reasoning behind the recomendation to turn write-behind caching off on a VFP file-server (and workstation?).
>>>>Is it still there? For all OS?