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Article #25444: The system cannot find the path specified

Problem:
 While trying to run the Database Statistics on a database
located on a NT machine, from a Windows 95 machine, getting

         "The system cannot find the path specified"

while trying a GBAK on the same database, getting the
following error..
         "I/O Error for file :D:/mydir/this/foo.gdb
          Error while trying to open file. System cannot find the path
          specified." 

This person had the database in a directory different from the
one InterBase was installed in.  He could access/select/update
data in the database, from a Windows 95 machine using the
Server Manager/WISQL.

However, everytime he was unable to do any other type of
DBA work on the database like database statistics, backup etc.
Moreover, he could do all the operations on the example 
database in the InterBase directory, including database statistics
and back-up.

We moved the problem database to the InterBase directory and
then found that we could do all operations to this database now.


Solution:
We found that, he had installed the InterBase server on the
NT system few hours back, and had not rebooted his machine.
After adding the InterBase directory in the path environment variable
and then rebooting the machine, his problem was solved.  

Last Modified: 26-OCT-00