On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:15:37 -0600 Art Giles <ag@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Please try to come up with more descriptive subject lines than "need to know". Subject lines are intended to serve a useful purpose and are not just "dead space" that you should fill in with anything at all that's not related to your actual subject or question. Having said that: > Hi how do you open a db file That depends entirely on what created your "db file". A moment of Google search tells me that it could be a file created by Filemaker Pro or Microsoft Access. If it's "thumbs.db" then that's a file of thumbnail graphics used by Windows Explorer. It could also be an Ansys database, an Arcview Object Database file, or something created by Synopsys Design Compiler, dbVista, Paradox, Smartware, XTreeGold. There are about 17 other programs that apparently create a "db file", plus ghawd-knows how many others that aren't on the list that I'm looking at. So.... What created it? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com