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System.IO.StreamWriter Close or Flush method to shut down the computer in such a way that just part of the file is written? or an empty file is written? Also if the Close or Flush is to a streamwriter writing to a network share, is it possible for th

System.IO.StreamWriter Close or Flush method to shut down the computer in
such a way that just part of the file is written? or an empty file is
written? Also if the Close or Flush is to a streamwriter writing to a
network share, is it possible for the network to go down in such a way that
the tartet file is only partialy written? or are there some kind of check
sums to prevent this.
Nov 17 '05 #1
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Since the StreamWriter is likely buffered, and since the hard disk
itself is also likely buffered, an unexpected crash of the pc or
network, could definitely cause the information in the buffers to be
lost and not written to disk.

In that case, a zero byte or partial file might be written.

Since you cannot know when the computer/network is going to crash,
there is not really any way to prevent it. The best you could do would
be on start of your app, check the file and see if it is incomplete.

Nov 17 '05 #2

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