>About three weeks ago, there was a discussion about backing up Ebase
>and the general consensus seemed to be that when you copy Ebase to a
>CD it became read only when you copied it back to your hard disk.
In this case, the Mac system operated differently from Windows. I
have experienced both the results you describe - change to read-only
on Windows systems and no change on my Mac system.
>
>I haven't tested the simple copy function. But I have been using CD
>to back up my hard disk on a Macintosh iMac computer using
>Retrospect as a backup program.
>
>I'd used this previously on Zip Disks.
>
>Just to test, I used Retrospect to restore a previous day's Ebase to
>a separate folder on my hard disk. I was able to open it and change
>some of the records without changing any of the properties. All of
>the test changes were retained in that copy. Opening that folder did
>not affect the other copy of ebase on the hard disk.
>
>Then to test another idea, I simply copied Ebase to a CD using a
>program called Toast. Having copied it, I could use the CD as a read
>only version, opening it in FileMaker ,but all the files were locked
>and could not be modified--the CD itself is read only.
>
>Next, I copied that CD's contents into a new folder on my hard
>disk--with a different name on the folder to avoid a conflict with
>the regular Ebase folder.
>That copy could be opened with FileMaker and it was exactly the same
>as the original--it could be modified, added to, etc.
>
>If you are restoring a corrupted file from a CD backup, my sense is
>that you should put the corrupted file in the trash (without
>emptying the trash), copy the file from the CD, check it to confirm
>it is working, and only then then empty the trash.
>--
>Simply,
>
>John
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://simsoc.org
>
>Thank you for you!
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