At 06:48 AM 30-05-02 -0300, you wrote:

>Also, I found out from my colleague that actually does the tech support
>with the clients(I do the dirty work as you can see), that this client's
>Windows event log is full of red error flags. So, now I know that there's
>something wrong with the system itself, because I did rectify the errors
>before, but at a cost of losing data. And, it happened again not even 24
>hours later(this tells me that the system itself is not trust worthy).

Erk! a dying hard-drive? Gosh, I can remember when this happened at one
of my clients (not when IB was the database) and it was horrible to behold
- slow, tortured death. At least IB/FB gives reasonably good warnings. I
hope they have some good backups.

H.


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