Re: Another FileMaker Applescript Question....
Re: Another FileMaker Applescript Question....
- Subject: Re: Another FileMaker Applescript Question....
- From: Tom Giles <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:08:22 +0100
- Organization: BD Solutions
Thanks for that - i did mean "Recover". As i understood the
instructions for migrating from pre filemaker 7, i needed to do a
recover as well as a compress and save a copy. Thanks for the script I
will give it a go.
tom
Bruce Robertson wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to write a script that will restore some databases in
filemaker (I have about 500 to do in order to upgrade to FM9). I have a
very simple one line script in FM that runs the restore command, and an
Applescript that calls it. Unfort I can't for the life of me figure a
way to interact with the two menus the Restore command bring up. The
first menu asks for a db to restore; the next one ask for a place to
save the restored copy. Can anyone suggest away to fill these menus
with AppleScript?
Thanks!
tom
First of all there is no such command as Restore.
Secondly - perhaps you mean the Recover command?
Why would you want to do this?
You risk damaging all your databases. The Recover command is a last-resort
command and is not necessary for conversion to FileMaker 9.
What IS suggest when converting to FileMaker 9 is to use the save a copy
compacted command.
If your files are in FileMaker 8.5 then you can use a script like the
following to save the files in compacted format into a folder "Compacted"
Save Me Compacted
Set Error Capture [ On ]
Set Variable [ $path; Value:Get(FilePath) ]
Set Variable [ $path; Value:Substitute( $path; Get(FileName); "Compacted/" &
Get(FileName)) ]
Save a Copy as [ "$path" ] [ compacted copy (smaller) ]
Set Variable [ $result; Value:Get(FileName) & " error code: " &
Get(LastError) ]
Exit Script [ Result: $result ]
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