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What's the use of File-Locking?

It's recommended that you use this. It can happen that two visitors try to access for example the download-script at the same time, one copy of the script is in the process of writing the new database and the other copy of it wants to open the file at the same time. This causes massive problems as you can imagine. File-Locking can prevent this from happening. The first instance of the script locks the file so that the other one can't open the file, so no data will be lost if this happens. This sounds fine, but the problem is that not all servers support it, especially NT-servers are problematic. If you experience problems file-locking, try to deactivate it.