Could you not exclude the .LCK file from being zipped?
I've had the experience of NT servers keeping files open for a few
minutes after
the file is closed by all workstations. There is a registry setting
somewhere
to disable it but we tried & it didn't appear to work. Apparently NT
can
keep files open in anticipation that it will be opened again, which
results in
faster access. It's a real pain when doing backups.
Ross.
Mark Howard wrote:
> . Craig advised
> On reflection what is happening is
> that a user will quit my app and then immediately zip their database and
> send it to a remote site. The remote site then gets the "File locked by
> another user" message - presumably because the .LCK file was zipped up with
> the data files.
>
> And this is being caused because windoze has not yet deleted the .LCK file
> after the user has quit the app, due to cacheing?
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