>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?
I'll add to what Carl says, that to back up ebase you need to copy
all 29 files in the ebase directory to the backup media. Every one of
the files has data, and is important to the function of the file set.
ebase.exe is the runtime application that opens the data files, it
has no data itself.
>
>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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