At 04:15 PM 9/07/2003 +0200, you wrote:

>I have used external files before, and this one does exist and is in the
>correct place. That's why I can't understand what FB is or isn't doing.

So what are the errors you are getting?
a) on create
b) on restore

What version of Firebird are you doing this with? If 1.5, do you have the
new external file security aspects configured?

heLen