diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 0e8ae820..5b65c3af 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2565,3 +2565,6 @@ Francesco Saverio Schiavarelli <fschiava@libero.it>
 
 Matti Lehtimäki <matti.lehtimaki@gmail.com>
  for implementing the setup option "Miscellaneous/Channels wrap"
+
+Stephan Austermühle <au@hcsd.de>
+ for suggesting to flush the file in cSafeFile::Close()
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index f60d5601..1de58b99 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6379,3 +6379,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
     channel.
   This obsoletes the PLUGINPARAM patch.
 - Updated the Lithuanian OSD texts (thanks to Valdemaras Pipiras).
+- cSafeFile::Close() now flushes the file (suggested by Stephan Austermühle).
diff --git a/tools.c b/tools.c
index 39c17e2b..c989e267 100644
--- a/tools.c
+++ b/tools.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.c 2.6 2009/12/23 15:12:15 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.c 2.7 2010/02/28 13:31:46 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tools.h"
@@ -1423,6 +1423,8 @@ bool cSafeFile::Close(void)
         LOG_ERROR_STR(tempName);
         result = false;
         }
+     fflush(f);
+     fsync(fileno(f));
      if (fclose(f) < 0) {
         LOG_ERROR_STR(tempName);
         result = false;