ok I have been messin with the attachments so I can upload some zip files to my forum, I uploaded one file which said the file you uploaded is bigger than allowed . so I changed the file size upload. now when I upload the file I get a database error and it locks up and then I can't do anything after that and can't get the error cause it dosen't allow me to do anything in the forum. I have to use task manager to get it to un freeze. so what would be the problem. I can use the file system , but not the database. what can I do to fix this?