ODBC Administrator

[DA-Steve]

Can anyone tell me what this icon is, it appeared after i ran one of those apple script icons on a jpeg ( open with makeoldphoto.exe or something like that)


can i safely delete it?

 

[compuwar]

Can anyone tell me what this icon is, it appeared after i ran one of those apple script icons on a jpeg ( open with makeoldphoto.exe or something like that)


can i safely delete it?

ODBC is a database connectivity protocol. I'd probably want to investigate why an applescript did that if it were my system.

 

[DA-Steve]

ODBC is a database connectivity protocol. I'd probably want to investigate why an applescript did that if it were my system.

Thanks for the reply, im not sure that it happened as a result of running the applescript. i just thought id put that in because it was the only thing i did that was out of the ordinary around the time i noticed it.

 

[compuwar]

Thanks for the reply, im not sure that it happened as a result of running the applescript. i just thought id put that in because it was the only thing i did that was out of the ordinary around the time i noticed it.

Typically, you get an ODBC tool when you install something that uses a backend database, or provides a backend database. Those sorts of things tend to want to be configured, and an ODBC tool lets you point your client at a specific database server.

I'd really, really want to know what installed it and when- and to see if it's got anything in /Library or ~/Library that's configured.

[Edit] Nevermind, it's shipped with OSX in Applications->Utilities.

Just leave a copy in the original directory and don't worry about it.

 

[DA-Steve]

Typically, you get an ODBC tool when you install something that uses a backend database, or provides a backend database. Those sorts of things tend to want to be configured, and an ODBC tool lets you point your client at a specific database server.

I'd really, really want to know what installed it and when- and to see if it's got anything in /Library or ~/Library that's configured.

[Edit] Nevermind, it's shipped with OSX in Applications->Utilities.

Just leave a copy in the original directory and don't worry about it.

had me worried for a minute there 0_0

there was no ODBC in utilities so i just copied it back in there.

Thanks for taking the time to help