At 02:07 PM 13/06/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>Hello Pavel and all others who replied ,
>
>PC> On 13 Jun 2003 at 9:08, Hannes Streicher wrote:
>
> >> on the laptop i have a major inconvenience
> >> nearly every time i start the programm , firebird takes some 5 to 10
> >> minutes engraving (or whatever) my harddisk
> >>
>PC> snip
> >>
> >> i am using win xp pro ,
> >> firebird is the sourceforge binaries for win32
> >> runing as a service
> >> and i observed this on all three versions 1.00 1,02 and 1.03
> >>
> >> is this a normal behaviour , or am i missing some settings ?
>
>PC> Most likely you have System restore ON and your database has .gdb
>PC> extension, so your "smart" XP are making a backup of it. The fix is
>PC> simple: turn OFF System restore XP feature, or change extension of your
>PC> databases (to .fdb for example).
>
>yes that did solve the problem, and some others like the disapearing
>harddiskspace
>
>there shud be a note in the installation readme , warning about that

There is. It's always a good idea to read the release notes. See page 22.

Helen