I have considered that but, and checked it after your reminder. The call does does create the EMPTY file in the proper location, under the proper name. The file size remains at 0k and is apparently held open as when I try to recover, I cannot get rid of the empty file until I kill the process in task manager.

Any other ideas?

Seems like part of the "push the data" to the file simply doesn't!

Maybe relavent: The data being written to the file IS XML.

Thanks