> >> >I suspect a corruption of some sorts, but why the strange error

message?

> >>
> >> Don't know...yet. ;-)
> >>
> >> Have you thought about taking a filecopy of the database and renaming

it

> >to something else, i.e., not using copy/paste to rename Copy of ... but
> >renaming it character by character.
> >>
> >
> >That's odd, I renamed it "mydb.fdb" and trying to register in DBW, which
> >then connects to it to verify your connection details. Path to database:
> >F:\Data\mydb.FDB
> >
> >Error message:
> >ISC ERROR CODE:335544344
> >
> >ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
> >I/O error for file "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\FB_DEMO"
> >Error while trying to open file
> >The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> Well, at least it's telling you that the (non-existent) file location of a

(non-existent) secondary database is hard-wired into the database header.
Sounds as though someone at some point has done a screwy restore.

>
> Ivan Prenosil has a little utility that you can use to alter that info in

the header. You can get the link to Ivan's website from the docindex.

Right, I've downloaded "glink" and it shows this:

... all sorts of data ...
Variable header data:
Continuation file: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\FB_DEMO
Last logical page: 512000
*END*


So, this would explain it.

Can't Firebird raise a different error message saying "cannot find secondary
file" or something?

Martijn Tonies
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