Ann,

A> Copying can products a corrupt copy, and copying the copy back over the
A> original will produce a mess, but to the best of my understanding (a
A> large caveat) file copy programs will not damage the original or affect
A> concurrent actions on the database.

thanks, that's my expectation as well.

The reason I am currently into this is I am receiving more corruption
reports (coming from unattended/unmanaged installations, some of which
even on Win9x) than I'd like, and I would like to exclude that an
action customers seem to perform more often that they should, that is
copying databases, trashes their originals.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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