On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:38:07 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Open the file, write a little bit, close it. Open it again, append a
> little, close it. Repeat.  Possibly it requires other people to also
> have the file open at the same time, as for reading or something?

Don't think so.  Sparse files I could see, but a proper sparse file 
wouldn't shrink during a defrag, either, based on my own experiences, 
because the "empty" space is as important as the real data is to the 
application.

Jim

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