diff --git a/gramps2/ChangeLog b/gramps2/ChangeLog
index 442db1a8c..514069117 100644
--- a/gramps2/ChangeLog
+++ b/gramps2/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2006-07-14  Don Allingham  <don@gramps-project.org>
+	* src/DbLoader.py (DbLoader.read_file): handle DBAccessError
+
 2006-07-12  Brian Matherly  <brian@gramps-project.org>
 	* src/ReportBase/_CommandLineReport.py: missing import - CustomFilters
 	* src/plugins/NarrativeWeb.py: HTML validation fixes
diff --git a/gramps2/src/DbLoader.py b/gramps2/src/DbLoader.py
index b17a20704..19f879c0f 100644
--- a/gramps2/src/DbLoader.py
+++ b/gramps2/src/DbLoader.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Handling of loading new/existing databases.
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 import os
+from bsddb.db import DBAccessError
 from gettext import gettext as _
 import logging
 log = logging.getLogger(".")
@@ -397,6 +398,10 @@ class DbLoader:
                 os.chdir(os.path.dirname(filename))
             except:
                 print "could not change directory"
+        except DBAccessError, msg:
+                QuestionDialog.ErrorDialog(
+                    _("Could not open file: %s") % filename,
+                    str(msg[1]))
         except Exception:
             log.error("Failed to open database.", exc_info=True)