alt Hacker NewsInteresting that it doesn't specifically call out Anti-Virus scanning (which does occasionally result in at least one of these scenarios). I've seen many SQLite database become corrupted and the best you can do is have a backup.
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I had one machine on my entire client's network that could never download a LibreOffice document without it being corrupted.
Turns out it was kaspersky intercepting network calls, and deciding it was a very dangerous piece of file, and it would truncate it completely silently.
After wasting a non-billable afternoon on it, I just disabled the antivirus out of desperation and figured it out.
The solution was to generate a self signed certificate and TLS the connection and prevent the bugger to MITM us.
Since this day, even on a local network with behind a proxies and using a VPN, I still use https for all the services if I'm allowed.
if processes lock the file shouldn't AV refrain from reading or even writing it?