userData not saving when IE exits abnormally

That IS weird.. are you sure its not a caching problem?

lori wrote in message <3cf3c9f0$1@10.1.10.29>...
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>Within our scripts, we are using the userData behavior to store the data
entered
>by a user into an an xml file so that it is persisted when the user returns
>to that specific page. The call to save the information occurs when the
user
>clicks a specific button on the web page (a Save button), and this works
>fine as long as the user closes out of IE properly afterwards. However, if
>IE exits abnormally (for example, due to a power outage where the machine
>goes down unexpectedly), the user expects the data to be saved, because the
>user had already clicked on the Save button prior to IE's abnormal exit.
>However, upon re-entering the web site, it is apparant that none of the
information
>was saved at all. I have stepped through the process to verify that the
save
>method of the userData behavior is in fact executed successfully prior to
>the machine shutting down abnormally. Does IE have a built-in mechanism to
>clear user data that was to be persisted when it exits abnormally? I cannot
>find documentation on this type of scenario anywhere.