Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Re: unavailable database |
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Author | Helen Borrie |
Post date | 2005-01-22T02:55:17Z |
At 12:44 AM 22/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:
XP. You need to read the release notes!! Change the extension to ".fdb"
and you should be OK.
Reason: when you go to connect to your database, XP decides that you want
it to do a system backup of your file. It locks your file and the server
cannot get access to it. NOTE WELL :: You do NOT want XP to perform this
(SystemRestore) function on your databases at all!!!
./heLen
>Hi,This one is probably caused by using the file extension ".gdb" with
>
>I have the same problem; in my case I tried to open a GDB file I
>created using FBird v1.0 under Windows 2000 Pro. Now that I have
>Windows XP Pro, I downloaded FB from the link "25th December 2004
>Official Windows Setup and Installer For Classic and SuperServer
>V1.5.2 (.exe) (4.0mb) ", and when I want to connect to a couple of GDB
>files from IBExpert and Delphi v6 UP2 (with InterXpress for Firebird)
>I get:
>
>Attempting to connect to:
>C:\Documents and Settings\Guillermo Najar\Mis
>documentos\GNsis\Cursos\Curso ITESO\Especificaciones SI I\Sistema\ST.GDB
>
>Connecting... Failed!
>------------------------------------
>Unsuccessful execution caused by an unavailable resource.
>unavailable database.
>
>Attempting to connect to services manager... Failed!
>------------------------------------
>
>Unsuccessful execution caused by an unavailable resource.
>Cannot attach to services manager.
>
>Disconnecting from database... Passed!
>-----------------------------------------
XP. You need to read the release notes!! Change the extension to ".fdb"
and you should be OK.
Reason: when you go to connect to your database, XP decides that you want
it to do a system backup of your file. It locks your file and the server
cannot get access to it. NOTE WELL :: You do NOT want XP to perform this
(SystemRestore) function on your databases at all!!!
./heLen