Sally,
Macs don't recognize .exe files as "executable" programs, hence the need
for the different Mac and PC runtime applications. You'll have to play
with how to run one runtime database on the two platforms. I haven't
tried that so can't make any intelligent suggestions, though if I get a
little time over the next few days I may try it. I'll report back if I
do so.
FYI, if all you're doing is saving a copy as a backup on the Mac (not
trying to run it there), I'd think you could just transfer the files
back and forth as you need to without any problems. It's just when you
try to run it that the problem arises.
Carl
Sally Zaino wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a similar problem, trying to use my Mac laptop as a back-up for
> my PC ebase file. We don't have Filemaker Pro, we don't have a zip-drive
> and we don't have a CD burner--maybe someday. I sent the ebase file to
> myself (to my Powerbook) successfully, but can't open it on the
> powerbook. When I click on ebase.exe it says "application that created it
> cannot be found". How do I tell my Mac that ebase.exe is, in fact, an
> application?
>
> Sally
>
> At 12:44 PM 02/26/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >--- Carl Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Don't know if
> > > there could be something going on in the
> > > archive/unarchive process, but
> > > give it a try with uncompressed files.
> >
> >Thanks for the tip. Zip disk isn't an attractive
> >option for my setup here... but I just tried
> >transferring the files from PC to Mac over a network
> >via FTP (in binary mode). I got the same error again
> >about how the files didn't belong to the solution.
> >(So they must belong to the problem, right? :-)
> >
> >I should mention that I'm using the stand-alone ebase,
> >not FileMaker. Is the stand-alone version pickier
> >than FileMaker about which files it will use?
> >
> >Thanks again... --Ben
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