At 02:24 AM 03-10-02 +0000, you wrote:

>I have FireBird 1.0 installed and I got file.GDB about a month ago.
>I can open this file with IBAdmin 3 all right. But when I got the
>latest database (some filename, structure - the difference only some
>table have been added new records), I couldn't open this with
>IBAdmin anymore. I tried with IBAccess and IBView, there had same
>error following this:
>
>IBView version 1.01u error:
>ISC ERROR CODE:335544323
>ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
>file c:\ZETALABDB\ZETALABSTRY9.GDB is not a valid database.
>
>IBAccess error:
>file c:\ZETALABDB\ZETALABSTRY9.GDB is not a valid database.
>
>IBAdmin error:
>file c:\ZETALABDB\ZETALABSTRY9.GDB is not a valid database.
>
>I even tried on other machine that have only Windows 2000 installed,
>but it still gave me same error.
>
>Its error right away when I tried to open database. I can't even see
>the list of table name. A user permission is already Administrator.
>
>But when I tried all those software with the first database I had,
>it's work fine and open it nicely, no problem.
>
>Could anybody help please?

Somebody has given you a file which is not a Firebird or InterBase database
file. Possibilities:

-- Someone created a backup file using gbak and gave the backup file a
".gdb" extension when ".gbk" would have been more useful. In this case,
you should be able to restore the file using gbak.

-- The file you are looking at is one member of a multiple-file
set. (Firebird can be a multi-file database). In this case, you need to
have all of the files and to open the database using the file name of the
first file.

-- It is a one-file database which has been corrupted, e.g. by file-copying
whilst the database was active.

It sounds as if you need to investigate your problem with the person who
sent the file to you....

heLen