Paul,

> Re. as server://dir/base.gdb (double slash)
> You don't think the reason nobody could see her changes unless they used the
> same connection string had anything to do with the possible fact that you
> can create filenames on Unix that contain just about any character?
> i.e. this might have created a database in the root directory called
> "/dir/base.gdb "
>
> Just a thought.

Maybe you are right, but the fact that the gdb was corrupted made me
think that there could be the same (or a similar?) path problem under
Unix.

After they corrected the path to the gdb, everything worked as expected.

Robert