Richard, I knew about the slowness of the gdb extension on the XP, but did not know the cause.
All my apps support whatever extension you want. None of our users have the databas eon the XP, so its never been an issue for them. I had a quick look at IBVIEW, but I cant spot it except for the browse button for Registering a Database. I can remove gdb but then there is no default extension. Maybe I can use gdb, fdb and idb. Where else does it default to gdb ? Subject: RE: [DUG] who still uses .gdb files? Date sent: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:35:20 +0800 From: "Richard Vowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[email protected]> Send reply to: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <[email protected]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I agree :-) All my databases are called .ib - and all the ones created by IB are .ib by default from 7.0 onwards. I have just noticed that some utilities (e.g. Rohits one?) that .gdb is the standard suffix. Richard --- Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +64-9-9184573 cell: +64-21-467747 other: MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED], skype: rvowles blog: http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:delphi- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyley Harris Sent: Monday, 19 June 2006 2:07 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] who still uses .gdb files? Well, that´s old news and really odd fix. Not using gdb is really a much easier fix. Interbase doesn´t care what the file is called. Just name it idb for interbase database and there is no problem at all From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:delphi- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Vowles Sent: Monday, 19 June 2006 1:33 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] who still uses .gdb files? Came across this: Performance issue with Windows ME/XP This issue was raised during the release of InterBase 7.0. If you have renamed your databases to have an extension other than ".gdb" or if none of your databases are on Windows platforms, you can ignore this section. Microsoft has implemented a backup and restore utility called System Restore. This utility automatically backs up files that have certain extensions whenever they are touched. The old default InterBase file extension 'GDB' is on this list, which means that databases that have names ending in ".gdb" get backed up extremely frequently when they are in use. This is causing performance problems on Windows ME and XP systems. --- Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +64-9-9184573 cell: +64-21-467747 other: MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED], skype: rvowles blog: http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769 Regards Rohit ========================================================== ============ CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point Road, AKL, New Zealand PH (649) 489-2280 FX (649) 489-2290 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================== ============ _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
