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Windows Home Server has a problem

Windows Home Server is probably the Microsoft product that they had high hopes for. It basically adds a server to a home network of computers that can distribute files easily among other things. It has come to light however that files can become corrupted when editing them in several applications and saving them to the home server afterwards.

Microsoft is currently trying to reproduce the error to program a fix that gets rid of this problem. Users have reported that the they experienced corrupted files using the following programs: Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007, SyncToy 2.0 Beta but also customers who reported problems with non Microsoft products such as Quicken or Bittorrent applications.

The investigating team found three possible issues that might cause the corrupted files. They are the following:

  • A home server is under an extreme load. For example, lots of files are being copied to the home server.
  • At the same time, a user is editing files that are already saved in a shared folder on the home server.
  • The program that the user is using to edit these files is one of the programs that are listed in this article.

No real fix has been published yet which means that you should take precautions that those three issues will not corrupt your files. A workaround would be to save the files on your normal system first and then move them to the Home Server. That is, if I understood the problem correctly.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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