Hi, sorry for the off topic post. My friend reviewed a database I built and made some changes to the table structure although now I can't use it because of this perm error. He had no trouble getting around this when I tarred & emailed it to him originally so what am I missing? Thanks, Justin
mysql> use properties; Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Didn't find any fields in table 'cities' Didn't find any fields in table 'properties' Didn't find any fields in table 'property_units' Didn't find any fields in table 'unit_details' Didn't find any fields in table 'unit_types' Database changed mysql> show tables; +----------------------+ | Tables in properties | +----------------------+ | cities | | properties | | property_units | | unit_details | | unit_types | +----------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> desc cities; ERROR 1017: Can't find file: 'cities.ISM' (errno: 2) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]