Thanks Carl! However, when I right click on the ebase icon. there isn't an option for selecting which program to open ebase with. When I click on properties, I get three options, general, shortcut and security, but none of them prompt me to select filemaker to start it up with.

At 11:50 AM 1/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Julie,
>
>On a PC, right click the ebase.102 icon and select Filemaker Pro 5.x as the
>program to open with.  Make sure the "always use this program" option is
>checked.
>This should open the database useing Filemaker Pro and not the runtime
>(.exe) file.  Since you have Filemaker, you can get rid of the runtime file
>(called
>ebase.exe).  Once you've got that working, you can right click the ebase.102
>icon and "send a shortcut to the desktop" to have a quick and easy way to
>open the
>database.  In Win 98 and earlier, you can also drag this icon to the gray
>task bar at the bottom of the screen to give you a one-click launch of
>ebase.  On a Mac,
>it's a little different, but not much.  Again, you want to open ebase.102
>with Filemaker.
>
>One more thing, if you haven't already done so, when you try to open ebase
>with FMP 5 you will be required to upgrade the files to FMP 5.  Ebase
>version 1.02 is
>made for FMP 4 but the file structure is different in FMP5.  Don't worry so
>long as you have a backup.  Just make sure that the new FMP 5 files retain
>their
>original names.
>
>As for the "multi-user" status, you can change that under the setup wizard
>(screen 2).
>
>Carl
>
>
>Julie Fish wrote:
>
>> Computer idiot here. We are in the process of moving ebase from my
>> computer, to a different workstation. I went ahead and installed Filemaker
>> Pro5 on that computer, and copied all of my ebase files from a zip file on
>> to the hard drive on that computer.  I can't figure out how to run ebase on
>> that computer! When i tried copying the shortcut to the desktop to run the
>> program, it tells me that there is no ebase.exe file to run the program. Do
>> I need to download ebase again from the web in order to run the program?
>>
>> Also...somewhere along the line the program got switched to multi-user. How
>> do I switch it to single user?
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FAX 828.252.9074
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