• That is very odd, the SQLH2 base collector is only supposed to pick up files starting with 'pfc', so it shouldn't have even tried to open that file.  Normally, you don't stop the performance collector at all to run the base collector, so, in theory you shouldn't have a problem.  Running the base collector in between the stop and start evidently works for you, so continue on...

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