Thanks for the reply. Are your default trace files exhibiting the same behavior? Any thoughts as to what in windows securtiy could be causing this? Policy?

This is a prod server. I can't change the service account. I did notice that the default trace files don't inherit from the LOG folder. Is this...

thanks for the replies.

I still have the issue of not knowing which trace file is in use. It's possible that for a given trace that there isn't any number...