Ok, so to explain; I am developing for a system that can suffer a power failure at any point in time, one point that I am testing is directly after I have written a file out using a StreamWriter. The code below:
// Write the updated file back out to the Shell directory.
using (StreamWriter shellConfigWriter =
new StreamWriter(@"D:\xxx\Shell\Config\Game.cfg.bak"))
{
for (int i = 0; i < configContents.Count; i++)
{
shellConfigWriter.WriteLine(configContents[i]);
}
shellConfigWriter.Close();
}
FileInfo gameCfgBackup = new FileInfo(@"D:\xxx\Shell\Config\Game.cfg.bak");
gameCfgBackup.CopyTo(@"D:\xxx\Shell\Config\Game.cfg", true);
Writes the contents of shellConfigWriter
(a List
of strings) out to a file used as a temporary store, then it is copied over the original. Now after this code has finished executing the power is lost, upon starting back up again the file Game.cfg
exists and is the correct size, but is completely blank. At first I thought that this was due to Write-Caching being enabled on the hard drive, but even with it off it still occurs (albeit less often).
Any ideas would be very welcome!
Update: Ok, so after removing the .Close()
statements and calling .Flush()
after every write operation the files still end up blank. I could go one step further and create a backup of the original file first, before creating the new one, and then I have enough backups to do a integrity check, but I don't think it'll help to solve the underlying issue (that when I tell it to write to, flush and close a file... It doesn't!).