"Christian Bassi" <christian.bassi@tin.it> wrote in message
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>I am running IIS 5.0 on DMZ for ftp receiving files , this files after
>transmission are stored in a local directory polled from third-party
>software . During transmission the file is present on directory while
>growing dimension but third-party software consider this file just closed
>and get this incomplete file.
>
> There is a way to shadow the file during incoming transmisson or use a
> temporary file ?
>
> I find that Biztalk use a method like this for ftp transfer but we prefer
> to use IIS on DMZ
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Christian Bassi

"Christian Bassi" <christian.bassi@tin.it> wrote in message
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> Thanks Bernard
>
> There is a tool from Microsoft to check if a file is still open to avoid
> my problem ?
>
>
>
> Bernard Cheah [MVP] ha scritto:
>> If I get you correctly, the uploading file is not yet complete, but
>> already been pick up by the 3rd party software. If in this case, why
>> would you think a temporary file would help? to store somewhere then copy
>> to the actually ftp folder, won't it be the same during that file copy
>> process? why not the 3rd party app, detect if the file is still being
>> open or use and don't pick it up if still in use?
>>

> If I get you correctly, the uploading file is not yet complete, but already
> been pick up by the 3rd party software. If in this case, why would you think
> a temporary file would help? to store somewhere then copy to the actually
> ftp folder, won't it be the same during that file copy process? why not the
> 3rd party app, detect if the file is still being open or use and don't pick
> it up if still in use?