Hi I just added a locking mechanism to io_saveFile. I'm not sure if it works as expected please have a look at it. Another thing is the safemode problem - in some safemode environment we don't own directories we create so they have to be created via FTP this of course doesn't work for locking. So with enabled safemode locking is disabled currently. BTW: Does anyone on the list use the safemodehack? I'd like to get some feedback on it. Andi