Hrm. Seems vaguely familiar... been a while tho... can't think of what... eh...
Have you tried checking out the file with a hex editor or some such and see if the content is getting overwritten by something discernible? :de On 4/27/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am saddled with maintaining application running on ColdFusion Server > Enterprise 4.5.1 SP2. Yes, this is an ANCIENT verision of CF. > Thankfully the application is nearing end of life. > > Every few months or so I login into ColdFusion Admininstrator and > discover that one of these files under the CFIDE directory is displaying > garbage characters. Most often it is adminnavigation.cfm, > variables\index.cfm or datasources\index.cfm. A screenshot showing the > problem is here: > https://secure.ohr.berkeley.edu/willcall/331/cfadmin_vars_corrupt.jpg > > I've googled this several times, but haven't come across anyone with the > same problem. > > I fix the problem by copying over good versions of these files. > > The server is a Windows 2000 box. The file system is not encrypted or > compressed. > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts. I'd love to get to the bottom of > this. > > > > -- > Brian Wood > Programmer/Analyst > UC Berkeley Human Resources > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239019 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54