"If you can show the write portion of the code in your iteration, as well as a sample of the naming convention, it may offer more clues." $dbgMsg = "a diagnostic string maybe 5K in length"; $dbg_fp = fopen(ROOT_DIR.DS."dbg_log.txt", "a"); // Derives a full path fwrite($dbg_fp, $dbgMsg); fclose($dbg_fp); "Did you shutdown the system cleanly, when you recognized this behaviour?" Yes, a clean reboot. Not a reset-switch restart, nor a power-cycle restart. Sample lines from bootex.log: Checking file system on L: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. Windows will now check the disk. Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 is cross linked starting at 0x20b3b for possibly 0x100 clusters. Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 is cross linked starting at 0x20b3b for possibly 0x100 clusters. Some clusters occupied by attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 in file 0x3680 is already in use. Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, $J) from file record segment 13952. Sorting index $O in file 25. The object id in file 0x4d14 does not appear in the object id index in file 0x19. Inserting an index entry into index $O of file 25. The object id in file 0x4d17 does not appear in the object id index in file 0x19. Inserting an index entry into index $O of file 25. The object id in file 0x4d19 does not appear in the object id index in file 0x19. Recovering orphaned file .svn (19642) into directory file 13948. Recovering orphaned file CATEGO~1.TPL (19720) into directory file 28688. Recovering orphaned file categories.tpl (19720) into directory file 28688. Recovering orphaned file CATEGO~1.BAK (19721) into directory file 28688. Recovering orphaned file categories.tpl.bak (19721) into directory file 28688. And many, many more of each section. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php