At 12:21 AM 17/03/2003 +1100, Alan McDonald wrote:

>couple of things - you'd be advised to use version 6.02 or FB 1.. not 6.01
>secondly XP has the file GDB extension setup as some kind of protected
>file - it backsup the file at some times. You need to remove gdb from the
>protected extensions list.
>or use FB and use another extension as default.

..actually, you can use any extension for an IB database as well. "gdb" is
only a convention - except for isc4.gdb, of course, which is hard-coded.

It looks as if you are getting hit by three things: XP's evil intentions
vis-a-vis files with "gdb" extension once when first connecting to isc4.gdb
and again when connecting to your database) and the known IB 6 "slow first
connection" bug. (Fixed in Firebird 1.5 beta and IB 7, has to be lived with
in other versions).

Still fixing the two which can be fixed should help a lot...

heLen