Christian:
Just tried with 7.8.2 and same issue. I can send you the DB if you like.
Here is something interesting:
If I run "info database" after starting from command line, I see  Nodes: 0 /  Documents: 0 /  Binaries: 0
After I "open", I see Nodes: 1187661 /  Documents: 27 /  Binaries: 0
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DBINFO AFTER STARTING FROM COMMAND LINE

Database Properties
 Name: uk_ukda_teaching
 Size: 0 Bytes
 Nodes: 0
 Documents: 0
 Binaries: 0
 Timestamp: 1970-01-01-01-00-00

Resource Properties
 Input Path: /Users/pascal/Work/DwB/BaseXData/uk_ukda_teaching
 Input Size: 37 MB
 Timestamp: 2014-01-10-11-56-38
 Encoding: UTF-8
 CHOP: true

Indexes
 Up-to-date: true
 TEXTINDEX: true
 ATTRINDEX: true
 FTINDEX: false
 LANGUAGE: English
 STEMMING: false
 CASESENS: false
 DIACRITICS: false
 STOPWORDS:
 UPDINDEX: false
 MAXCATS: 100
 MAXLEN: 96


DBINFO AFTER "OPEN uk-ukda_teaching"
Database Properties
 Name: uk_ukda_teaching
 Size: 37 MB
 Nodes: 1187661
 Documents: 27
 Binaries: 0
 Timestamp: 2014-01-10-11-56-38

Resource Properties
 Timestamp: 2014-01-10-11-56-37
 Encoding: UTF-8
 CHOP: true

Indexes
 Up-to-date: true
 TEXTINDEX: true
 ATTRINDEX: true
 FTINDEX: false
 LANGUAGE: English
 STEMMING: false
 CASESENS: false
 DIACRITICS: false
 STOPWORDS:
 UPDINDEX: false
 MAXCATS: 100
 MAXLEN: 96






On 5/16/14, 6:59 AM, Christian Grün wrote:
java -Xmx512m -cp "/Users/pascal/git/dwb/lib/BaseX77.jar"
> -Dorg.basex.DBPATH=../BaseXdata org.basex.BaseX -ifoo