Re: FM Pro 6: lost many records.

Fergus McMenemie <fergus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a site running a filemaker pro 6 database which serves about 6
users on various networked macs running os9 and os x. This has proved
itself to be an extremely reliable application, over the years. Recently
a more active pattern of usage has developed with a lot more data entry.

However, something went wrong and many hours worth of data entry was
lost. I am at a loss to explain what went wrong. Magagment has lost a
lot of confidence in the system. The only thing I can think of was two
users, activity editing records, were both using the same password. Is
there any problem with this?

There shouldn't be.

There is a second possibility, I dont have filemaker server. In theory
a user on the disk server opens FM pro first and others then connect to
the running copy of the DB. But I suspect that in some cases it is being
opened by others via a file shared disk. Is this likely to cause
problems?

Yes! Two copies of FileMaker Pro directly accessing the same database
file(s) from a shared location can easily cause corruption of the
database.

The only safe way to have shared access to a database (if you don't
trust your users) is to put the database files in a location which is
only accessible to the one user who is supposed to be hosting the
database, and for everyone else to access it via FileMaker's database
sharing.

There is no problem in this case with you using FileMaker Pro to share
the database.

FileMaker Server is required for a greater number of users, and adds
some benefits such as being able to back up the database cleanly.

--
David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
.

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