Evening Kelly, > thanks for the quick replies. > > the .fbk file is in a folder without a .gdb file, so there's no issue with > "create" "overwrite" No worries, that was a red herring anyway. I was wrong in saying that it could overwrite under some versions. Unfortunately my correction seems to have gone awol, but Helen kindly pointed out my error.
> the fbk file is 7.3 gigs. Fairly big. > there's 151 gigs free Enough. > it's win7 64 bit. > that drive is ntfs. Which can cope with bigger than 4Gb files with no problems. Unless, of course, you are using 32 bit Firebird but that's unlikely to be the case as you created the fbk with the same version. Ok, I'm mainly a Unix person, not so hot on Windows, but in Unix, the firebird user has to have permissions to write to the directory/folder where the new database is to be created. Would that be a problem with your setup? I imagine that the error would not bother to mention the page size though, even in that case. It could be wroth checking - try a metadata only backup to the same folder as the one you are trying to create the new database in. (I'm just thinking out loud here!) Did you find anything of use on the thread I pointed you at in my original reply? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767
