As i mentioned above that´s what i did so far. "Normal" email with xp_sendmail works fine.

forgotten to say:

i have configured the profile in sql mail too, but didn´t help.

Oh,that´s it. I´ve forgotten that it is a keyword. Have tried it as normal query.

Thanks

Thanks, that helps for new additional filegroups. For example if i made a filegroup called testgroup, i am able to show it like this:

EXEC sp_helpfilegroup testgroup

But how can i show...

Ok. Already found:

select * from sysfilegroups

next questions:

viewing files in the filegroups?

Thanks Veteran!

Indeed there was no problem with the master. I am busy with learning the SQL stuff and just come to the point of shrinking. First thing i thought about...