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Write Operations: Choose how the file will be written. Synchronous writing means that messages in the channel can be blocked by the File Writer device and will not be written. In Asynchronous mode, message processing will never be blocked and the file will be saved when possible. Why would you want to use either method?Using Asychronous processing may provide better system performance and scaling, especially if you are writing large numbers of messages.
Once the file is saved/written, you can either copy it to a destination or FTP it.
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