From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Herbert,   
      
   >> Do you have any idea and/or example for which filesystems (OS versions ?)   
   >> that might be an issue ?   
   ...   
   > I think the OP uses Win10.   
      
   :-)  My question was solely for myself.   Perhaps the effect only occurs on   
   later versions of Windows (and I'm still in the clear).   
      
   By the way, I realized that the "code which searches for a free entry in the   
   FAT table" might even be as simple as an "look in the currently cached   
   cluster(s) first" approach.   
      
   > but if he doesn't want to try, it's hard to solve the problem.   
      
   I gave him the same solution you did - though not on a single line - but he   
   chose to ignore it and instead wanted to bitch about how he understood a   
   phrase I used differently (and rather out of context).  To which I bid him   
   goodbye and left him to his own devices.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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