Re: Another FileMaker Applescript Question....
Re: Another FileMaker Applescript Question....
- Subject: Re: Another FileMaker Applescript Question....
- From: Joe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:46:27 -0700
I have heard both recommendations. I was curious enough to look at
filemaker.com and found this:
Answer ID 750
Products FileMaker Pro
Last Updated 07/10/2007 07:53 AM
Document title: Conversion & Migration: Things To Think About Before
Converting Your File(s) To FileMaker 7, 8, 8.5 or 9.0
<Contains this section>:
"RECOVER & COMPRESS FILES:
This suggestion serves two purposes. Recovering a file before
conversion will run some basic maintenance on your file and catch any
minor / unknown issues that might be affecting the file. Saving a
compressed copy of the file will remove all the wasted and unused
space in the file leaving you with a smaller file. Compressing and
recovering a file will leave you with the most optimized FileMaker
Pro files possible. The recommended steps to follow are
Recover the file (assume original name of file is MyFile.FP5 - Save a
copy of the recovered file in another location / folder)
Open recovered file and save a compressed copy of file (open MyFile
Recovered.FP5 and save a compressed copy of it)
Rename the compressed copy of the file back to the original filename
(rename MyFile Recovered Copy.FP5 to MyFile.FP5)
Repeat this process for ALL the files that are part of your
solution / database
Then use the compressed / recovered versions of your files when
converting to FileMaker Pro 7 or FileMaker Pro 8/8.5."
Joe
On Sep 9, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Tom Giles wrote:
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"
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