It bears repeating: Never ever have more than one identical copy of any
ebase file (or any FileMaker file for that matter) on your computer!
The workaround for dealing with this, as Bob suggested, is to disguise the
files so that FileMaker doesn't recognize them. He mentions compressing them
into a Zip archive (or Stuffit on the Mac). Another method I use is to
rename the extensions. I change all the .102 extensions to .X02 for the
ebase directory. If I ever need the files, it's easy to rename them back.
Gary Bogue
> Subject: Re: newbies questions
> From: "Bob LeLievre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:49:07 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 16
>
> A 100mb zip drive costs about $80, disks cost about $8 each. A 650mb CD
> writer starts at $150, but the disks cost 25 cents each.
>
> The CD writer is far more flexible, holds more, and will be a lot cheaper
> if
> you make lots of backups.
>
> On the subject of having multiple ebase folders on your hard disk,
> Filmaker
> has a nasty flaw. When it tries to open a file, it first looks in the
> current folder. If for whatever reason it can't find it (because the file
> is damaged or accidentally deleted), Filemaker may start looking in other
> folders for a file of the same name and will open it when it finds it.
> The
> bad thing is that it doesn't tell you it's doing this, so it's possible to
> have your active data files spread over multiple directories without you
> knowing about it.
>
> If you want multiple ebase folders on your disk (for backup purposes),
> compress them with something like WINZIP.
>
>
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