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 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.

One of our guys connected from Marathon using UNC instead of
server:drive:\path\db.gdb. As far as i can remember, this is part of the
problem...??

Thanks


L.J. van Alphen
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