At 06:03 PM 17/04/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>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.

Are you aware of the SystemRestore problem with IB or Firebird on an XP server?

Helen