I know there have been some issues that needed sorting out, but this is the first time I've heard it described quite like that. Just how serious is this problem?

I caught that in THIS article:

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Windows Home Server (which is currently plagued by a serious and still unresolved file-corruption bug)

I haven't had this problem but a few people must be complaining tho...

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Windows Home Server Knowledge Base article We just published a Knowledge Base (KB) article on Microsoft Help and Support: “Editing files using certain applications may cause file corruption on a system running Windows Home Server (946676)”. A few people in the Community Forums have reported data corruption when saving files from applications including Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 and SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Additionally some applications, like Microsoft Money and Microsoft Outlook, do not support storing files on shared folders. As always, we’re using this blog to openly communicate important issues that may have an impact on the home server community. The Windows Home Server team closely follows the threads on the Community Forums to get real-time feedback. Data integrity is of the utmost importance; the Windows Home Server team tackles issues around file or data corruption with extreme seriousness and urgency. When we see issues that we cannot reproduce (“repro”), we contact specific forum participants and initiate an e-mail conversation to understand the issues, environment and exact steps a user is taking. We are releasing this KB because we have been able to successfully “repro” this issue. For more information about our product support process, please see this post. So, what’s next? First, please read the Knowledge Base article #946676, and follow the recommendations. Second, our development team is working full time through the holidays to diagnose and address this issue. We will keep you posted on our progress on this issue as soon as we have more to share. Thanks again for all of your support, The Windows Home Server Team

WHS Blog

Here is a person that is rather upset w/ this bug

The thread: Outrage... (corrupted files)

Whoosh

So far so good here. As far as I know ine is still running smooth. The only issue I am having is Vista does not read it very fast. But then again Vista will not read anything on my network fast.

If you read into it, it seems that some people are using the WHS as a file server. They are keeping their per say, Quickbooks data file on the server and loading it from the server. This seems to be corrupting the file(s).

So far I work off of my hard drive and then let it backup. "Sometimes" i do copy a file to my folder just for safety.

Hmm... I haven't tried using WHS as a file server yet, altering the files in the shared folders, from another PC.. like updating a excel spreadsheet there & saving it.

NT50 wrote:

So far I work off of my hard drive and then let it backup. "Sometimes" i do copy a file to my folder just for safety.

Good call

I think I'll just wait until the WHS Team says more about this, to be safe.

You and me both. I am going to let it do it backup job and I am going to copy file to the Pictures, music, and my folder tht is pretty much it.
I do have ove 6000 pictures on it and don't want to losoe them but I have them in another location also. I try not to put all my eggs in one basket.

c/net picked up on this problem too...

Windows Home Server bug corrupts files

"Microsoft has issued a support document for the 13 or so (just kidding) people using Windows Home Server..."