The most common way for a magpie file to get into the procedure is
for the proper file to be unavailable somehow. FileMaker will put up
a dialog saying the file is not available, please find it. The user
then navigates to the correct file. If the user navigates to the
incorrect file, (or, I gather sometimes just cancels, and FileMaker
goes looking on its own) some other similarly named file gets
substituted.
In this case, if I'm hearing right, make the file names_copy.103
unavailable. Copy it to an external drive, throw the original in the
trash, and empty the trash. Then start ebase. When you get the
dialog asking for names_copy.103, navigate to the new, repaired, copy
of names.
Of course, the usual comments apply - restore is a dud, go to the
most recent backup to avoid future problems.
>Jack, Clif, Bob or others,
>
>I'm trying (long distance) to help someone fix a database gone bad
>(because of a crash) but have encountered an odd problem. When opening
>ebase with Filemaker (using ebase.103), the user is required to enter
>two passwords, one for ebase.103 and another for a file called
>names_copy.103 (or something like that). This file is the name of a
>"backup" copy of the names file kept on a local zip disc (although
>perhaps it was created when the user tried unsuccessfully to run the
>recovery procedure???). No other ebase-related files will open until
>this second file opens (same password). Once opened, the names file is
>opened next - or Filemaker tries to open it, but it is damaged.
>
>The user tried to run the FMP recover procedure, but because they didn't
>understand it, they seem to have aborted it. Unfortunately, there's no
>way for me to know for sure what happened when they tried to run the
>recovery procedure.
>
>I thought the ebase.103 file ran a script to open the other files, but
>how could this new file have gotten into the queue? I have no access to
>the ebase.103 file so can't look in there to see if there's a problem
>there.
>
>Can someone shed light on the "open" sequence and where such a file
>might have gotten plugged into it?
>
>Carl
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>New Hampshire Rivers Council
>54 Portsmouth Street
>Concord, NH 03301
>603-228-6472
>603-228-0423 Fax
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