Scary stuff. I make it a point not only to keep 1 copy only of ebase files on our serving machine, as Walt suggests, but also only that one copy anywhere on the local network.
Although I'm okay with my potentially excessively-paranoid approach for the time being, it'd sure be great to know just what FMPro is doing (is this a 'feature'?) that causes this kind of situation. In prior experiences with all kinds of software, I'm used to everything being path dependent, period. Does anyone have an informed understanding of just what FMPro is doing in this or similar situations? -- Eric Johnson Colorado Environmental Coalition -----Original Message----- From: Walter Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:18 AM To: TechRocks Support Subject: [support] Wierd FMP behavior Just as a warning to those who have multiple copies of .10x files on their disk. Today I needed to recover something from a Feb 1 backup. I loaded the CD into a temporary folder (forgetting to hide my main copy). I opened the old data and realized that I might not get what I wanted because of the other version, so I quit and erased the older data, including emptying the trash. However when I then opened the real data it couldn't find the payments file so I told it where it was. That looked ok but when all the opens finished I had TWO copies of the names file on the screen, one with fewer records, which would be likely for the older copy, however a search of the entire disk for names_.102 found only the recent one. So FMP is saving much more than the name and location of stuff it has seen in the recent past. The fix was to close the older file explicitly by clicking the X, then close down FMP. Upon restart everything seems ok. This strange behavior may be restricted to the version of FMP I run which is FMP 5.5 Developer. ------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
