Helen, thanks for your reply. Pity about Ann on holiday. Hope she has an
iCafe close by..! 8-)

At 20:12 2001-08-07 +1000, you wrote:

>Louis,
>I hope you get lots of ideas about the CAUSE from here...here are two
>possiblities to start with:
>
>Is your gdb file over 2 Gb? if so, is it getting near 4 Gb? If the
>database file overruns the 2 Gb limit (for FAT32, some say it is 4 Gb), it
>will begin to write over the top of itself from the beginning.

No the DB is only the development one without much data. Its only 9Mb..!

>Is somebody connecting to the database with a missing backslash following
>the drive designator? e.g. SERVERNAME:c:databases\mydb.gdb. If you have
>one or more users connected with the correct string and one or more
>connected with the bad string, your d
>atabase will be corrupted.

We are use MIDAS for the clients so there is only the App server
connecting, but i will have to check the dev tools like Marathon,etc...