Steve Abrahamson (26/8/05 4:43 pm) said: >But I just want to be clear to anyone else reading the list (lurkers et >al) that your statement of "I don't think PowerMail or other well-written >applications behave like this" simply isn't true. Very well-written >database engines keep files open, and yes, a crash or cut to power can >leave those files unusable. But I'd like to stress for the technical out >there (and there seem to be plenty on this list) that that's not an >indication that the app is flawed; it's simply the nature of databases.
PowerMail doesn't behave like this for me. The database is rarely corrupted by a power cut or crash. This really has nothing to do with leaving files open. An application can leave files open without them being in an incomplete state. There is a possible issue with write caching (data may not be written to disk until a second or so after it has been written to the file). Jeremy
