Too little information. I can think of at least one way: Volume Corruption. I 
can think of another way: File was not saved where you thought it was saved. 
Yet another way: User or app appears to have saved the file but in reality, 
didn't. 

Bob


On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Dan Friedman wrote:

> Hey...
> 
> I am writing compressed XML data to file on a server using the put command.  
> Every now and then, I get a report from a user that when they go to read the 
> data, they are getting an error.  When I look on the server, the file is 
> gone!  Not empty, not zero K... just gone - nonexistent!
> 
> Let's assume for a moment that the file was there to begin with, and there is 
> no one messing with the data and secretly deleting things.  It must be 
> something in my app that is causing this.  But, what could it be?  Nowhere am 
> I deleting a file.
> 
> Can anyone think of a way you could delete a file without actually deleting 
> it?
> 
> I tried:
> 
>       put compress("") into url x
> 
> I thought that compressing "empty" might do something funny.  But it didn't, 
> it just wrote some gargly-goop.
> 
> 
> ANY thoughts out there??
> 
> Thank you in advance,
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