From: Calistra Research Labs Date: March 19 1999 5:13pm Subject: ODBC Error 13 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/myodbc/70 Message-Id: <199903191658.AAA17540@westgate.cyberway.com.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I am executing ALTER TABLE Cases CHANGE COLUMN newcol CaseID int(11) NULL to rename a column. MySQL renames the file Cases.frm to B-1.frm and returns the following error SQLExecDirect returned SQL_ERROR State S1000 Native Code 7 [TCX][MyODBC]Error on rename of './Reginald/cases.ISD' to './Reginald/B-1.ISD' (Errcode: 13) Whereafter the table Cases no longer exists! Any ideas - (I will be running the debug log tomorrow) Dave Appleton Calistra Research Labs Pte Ltd Tel : +65-9-640-2960 111 North Bridge Rd #21-01 Fax : 756-6058 Peninsular Plaza Singapore 179098 Machine Vision Systems Interactive Voice Response Systems Development IT Consultants & Custom Software Development mySQL Database Consultants / Developers