0.51 still has data corruption/locking issues
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I still experience data corruption and locking with 0.51 on Windows XP. Possibly the corruption is as a result of hard rebooting (seems like only option) during the locking. Various writes to the ext3 partition seem to fail - iTunes can't write apps purchased on the device to the disk, Windows Update cannot isntall updates properly etc. One way to reliably reproduce a lock-up is to install Windows updates such that the temporary files go onto the ext3 partition (I believe this happens when it has the most free space), and then open explorer and try to view the disk. Everything freezes.
I have moved back to 0.48 for now, as my system would regularly become unusable.