Several years ago I wrote a script that used DB_File to manipulate a small database. The only reason I really did this was to simplify things rather than using a flat file. It has however come back to bite me. The server the script was hosted on got upgraded and now when trying to tie the database I get the error "File Exists". Here's how I'm trying to tie it: 
tie (%DATABASE, "DB_File", "$OPTIONS{database_dir}/database.db", O_RDW
+R|O_CREAT, 0755, $DB_BTREE) || die "Cannot open database: $!\n";

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Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I've got a lot of data in these databases that unfortunately is not backed up in an alternate form and would like to recover it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

In reply to Problem Tieing a database created with DB_File by Tim_Odom

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