On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:33 PM, FidelisMuia
<fbird@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a system that was developed to run in windows 2000. The system
> is currently running in about 40 customers running various versions of
> Windows from 2000, XP and XP SP2.
>
> The Database is firebird 1.5.43 and has been running with no reported
> problems for the last two years.
>
> Last month one of my customers purchased new workstations with Windows
> Vista business and installed my application on it. Several days later
> they called, reporting some data loss. They have reported that
> whenever they process transactions in the system log out of the system
> and switch off the P.c for the night, the next day on loggin in they
> noticed that the transactions posted the previous day were lost.
>
> This only happens with Vista P.c. I have tried everything I know from
> re-insatlling the Database to running it as embedded, still no joy.
>
> Has anyone noticed such data losses from using firebird 1.5.43 on
> Windows Vista?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Fidelis M. Muia.

Hi Fidelis,

I am not really a Windows Vista experienced person, but I was
wondering if you checked if your database has forced write enabled.

Do the following:

gstat -h yourdatabase.fdb

And the post back the output

All the best,

Fidel.