Sender FTP picks up incomplete files while transfering...any clue?

Hi !!
After reading some posts, I understand that this problem has no complete solution yet. Am I right?
The "Msecs to wait before Modification check" advanced option, only works for NFS, not for FTP. I am using central adapter engine.
How about the Run OS Command BEFORE message processing...?? when does this OS command exactly runs ?? before mapping ?? after succesfully polling target directory?
Thanks
Matias

I was asking for a more detailed answer...specifically this: does the Run OS command BEFORE, runs:
- before the file adapter starts polling the source directory
- after file adapter found any file in the source directory
depending on the answer, I could run a shell script to "pre-rename" all files matching a condition, to ensure the poll finds them, or something like that...
Now I'm thinking that maybe it is not important...if it runs after founding a source file, those renamed files could be found by the adapter in the next cycle of the loop.
Thanks,
Matias.

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