Thanks Walt. I'll send you the screen shots file directly. You said: "It is highly recommended that the datafiles reside on the machine that is hosting the files to the other users and that no other machines have active shares of the disk where the data resides. Any violation of this is almost certain to result in data corruption. Data corruption can cause program errors of many sorts."
I'm a little confused. We have the data files on the server, and we have FMPro installed on the workstations, which in turn go to the server for the data files. Is this the proper set up? gds -----Original Message----- From: Walt Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:16 AM To: TechRocks Support Subject: [support] RE: Ebase won't run on W2K machine > As for your problem, FileMaker sometimes becomes corrupted when networks > misbehave. Occasionally, > I, or one of my users, will have a problem similar to what you describe. > Uninstalling and reinstalling the FileMaker application usually > solves it. I > assume all your files are set multiuser. > There is an enormous difference between FileMaker (the program) and eBase files (the data) being corrupted. Crashes almost never cause corruption of programs because once installed the files are never modified. Similarly reinstalling programs that fail rarely fixes things unless other programs have been installed after the one which you suspect of failing. It is not unusual for the install of a new program to cause the failure of programs that previously worked. The only cases where I have seen a reinstall to be beneficial are for MS products which heavily use the registry which is suseptible to the same kinds of corruption as FileMaker database files. I don't believe FileMaker depends heavily on the registry. There are other possible causes of failures such as you hint at. I have seen bad ethernet cards cause all sorts of strange problems that are extremely hard to dianose. Since your attachment of a full explaination did not work, further analysis is impossible. Please cut and paste it (even without the screens). From what words you did include, it is not clear which machine is hosting the files. It is highly recommended that the datafiles reside on the machine that is hosting the files to the other users and that no other machines have active shares of the disk where the data resides. Any violation of this is almost certain to result in data corruption. Data corruption can cause program errors of many sorts. ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
