There is a place in XP where you need to tell it not to do an auto-backup
for files which end with the GDB extension.
Lots said about this in archives.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Computer Programming Solutions
Mesa Arizona
http://www.ibobjects.com

-- We may not have it all together --
-- But together we have it all --

----- Original Message -----
From: "eamonnm2002" <eamonnm2002@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: [IBO] TIBODatabase.Open long delays


> dont really know where to start with this one, hope someone can
> help. most of the time when my program does a TIBODatabase.Open,
> the datbase is opened instantly, but sometimes it takes much longer -
> around 35 seconds - and makes XP unresponsive while it waits.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? you might be able to point me in the
> right direction.
>
> I'm fairly sure that this only happens in one of my apps (i have
> several that all work together), so i must be doing something wrong,
> though they all seem to use the DB the same way - in fact they all
> share the saem DataModule.
>
> cheers.