Thanks for that, however my Linux infancy is showing in the fact that I can't see anything there in GPE file editor, and X-term says it can't cd to that folder. I've made sure I typed the preceeding "." but nothing. I also don't know how to get "ls" to show hidden files/directories... as I was a DOS boy growing up. Perhaps you could break it down into a few more steps for me? ;-) Thanks again p.s I Suppose at least a "Wipe Database" button would ease the pain. This could maybe be a stopgap measure until the db corruption bug is solved.