On 6/2/2004 at 5:24 PM Leyne, Sean wrote:

> > Furthermore, they decided that .gdb files should be included under
> this
> > sweet feature.
>
> Actually, it turns out that MS decided to use this extension for some of
> its own system/internal files (registry or such).
>
> I saw this one day when running disk defrag, the defrag showed the name
> of the file it was working on... it had the extension ".gdb"
>
> When I tried to find the file using standard tools, nothing came up.
>
> So the file must be 'protected' -- thus the reason that the extension is
> covered by the system restore feature.
>
>
> Sean
>

This is all true. However, it is also true that MS made the decision to do this (use .gdb for their own internal purposes) many years after the introduction of Interbase. I just have this difficulty believing they didn't have ulterior motives when they made that particular choice....

Dan.