I've actually been playing around with SSIS a bit and have made some headway I think.

What I've done is I've just made a package that copies the csv file and...

Yeah I can open it. and I could copy and do a special past into another spreadsheet so presumably that means that it's not locked. It is read only though.

I...

Yeah unfortunately it is permanently running. It's a work around that I'm trying to figure out. the third party device was supposed to send SNMP traps and I would...

Thanks for the quick reply. That sounds good. I will have a look into that and try and figure out SSIS.

Do you think it will have an issue with...