>1. PROBLEM importing Payments: would not allow me to choose Record # in
>the destination file. And when importing, the imported fields ended up
>in the wrong fields in the destination file. Solved by adding all 723
>payments by hand.
The ebase import process assumes that your original data will get
re-numbered when it gets dumped into ebase, since there is no reason
to assume that your original data will be compatible with the numbers
in ebase (unique, primarily). So your source file record number gets
put into Legacy ID and ebase re-assigns numbers based on the Legacy
ID in the names file.
It looks to me as if your questions revolve around transferring data
from one copy of ebase to another. It would be much easier, as you
suggest below, to make copies of the entire file set onto a removable
disk and take that to the other computer. Mac and PC FileMaker use
the same file format so this would work just as well between a Mac
and Windows machine (assuming you use a PC-formatted disk) as it
would between two similar machines.
>2. PROBLEM importing payments from ebase on office PC to home PC (same
>versions). Still won't let me choose record number in destination file.
>So, I chose "Legacy ID" instead, in the destination file which allowed
>me to transfer record numbers and names into the payment records but
>with different record numbers. I then went to "Fix Codes", Replace All
>with Legacy Source Codes", wondering if that would update the record
>numbers. When I went to the names file, I found all record numbers
>changed to increments of 1 starting with number 2 (which was the same in
>the original file) so record numbers more closely match number of
>records in file except they are off by one digit. I found that the
>
>QUESTION: The original file's record numbers reflected the records that
>were deleted, so the record number was up to over 7600 for 6706 total
>records. Is there any reason not to make the record numbers consecutive
>as has happened now on my home PC? And if not, how can I do it on my
>office PC?
>
>QUESTION: What did I do wrong in importing payment records from the
>office PC to my home PC? (See problem #'s 1 and 2 above.) If the
>destination file while importing doesn't allow me to choose the "Record
>#" field, nor any name fields, what unique field can I import from to
>allow the destination file to know what payment records go with what
>name records?
>
>QUESTION: I want to be able to take home the updated Ebase files from
>the office, put them on my PC to work on them and then update the office
>Ebase the next day.
>
>Using a Zip drive: The Mac in the office has a Zip but I am waiting for
>a scsi adapter to be installed onto our office PC so I can use it on
>both.
>
>QUESTION: Wouldn't using the Zip (or a CD-RW which I don't have right
>now) make it much simpler? I have been using the Zip on the Mac for
>backing up which has come in very handy the several times I have had to
>deal with damaged files, simply replacing the damaged file with the good
>backup from the zip. I am assuming I can do the same in order to
>transfer the updated file to whatever computer I'm working on, i.e.
>replacing the older Names file with the updated Names file?
>
>Thanks for your help!
>Laura
>
>Genesee Center for the Arts and Education
>Rochester, NY
>
>
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