Wait...

ISTR that the DBMS server hangs around with the DB open for a second or two after the last access. See if a five second delay solves your problem.

N.b. This is a suggestion only... :-)

Use _LIT

You can replace
#define ABC "abc"
with
_LIT( ABC, "abc" );

The resulting 'literal' behaves pretty much the same as a TDesC; if you have problems, use it followed by ().

You can...

I haven't seen that particular problem, but aiftool certainly likes to do things relative to the root directory - particularly when you're running from the command line. It doesn't understand the...

If the descriptors contain UNICODE charactors and you want them ASCII, then you've got some conversion to do using the text conversion utilities.

But if you just want a buffer with the same bytes...