kivetros

I'm definitely on to something here. Thank you so much - your instructions worked perfectly, and I was able to see where FM was looking for the file. Apparently, FM was looking for the file in exactly the right location (on a drive on our network). The network drives are all password-protected. All the computers in our office have a batch file on them that logs each user in to the networked drives. Well, even after running the login batch file, when I went to File-Open in FM and browsed to Computer, all the network drives showed up as unavailable. I tried to open the drive and it prompted me for a password. After putting in the password, I closed the Open dialog, checked again, and the pictures were all back. So the question is - why isn't FM able to access the network drives until they are logged in to manually, through an Open dialog in Filemaker, even I can access those drives from the Windows Explorer? Thanks again for all your help. -K EDIT: As it turns out, that's only part of the problem. It doesn't fix everything. Here's a screenshot of the output from that script on an entry with a broken picture: I initially thought that somehow, part of the file path had gotten axed. But, upon further examination, I found that if I ran the script on an entry where the picture was fine, that the output was the same. I don't see any rhyme or reason to this. The image file is EXACTLY where the screenshot says it is. Also, I don't know if I mentioned this before or not, but only references to the images are stored - not the images themselves. Could this be a part of the problem?

I'm just using FileMaker Pro, not Advanced. This looks to be exactly what I was looking for - I spent quite awhile yesterday trying to find where FileMaker thinks the file is. I'm going to give this a shot. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks so much for your help. -K

I work for a company that sells plastic injection molding machinery and parts. We use FileMaker Pro 9 for our database. Each record has information like volts, make, model, serial number, and so on and so forth. Well, we also have one Container object per entry that we use to display a picture of the part / machine that the record is in reference to. Anyway, lately the Containers seem to be randomly losing the path to the picture files. Our pictures are on a networked drive, but the connection's fine, and this doesn't happen to every record - just certain ones - and it seems that it keeps happening to more and more records. I've been searching Google for more information about the Container for the last hour (still pretty new to FM), and I've had no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -K

I'm running FMS11 and am trying to connect to a FileMaker database with the PHP API, and I keep getting this error message. I have looked it up on Google, but the only hit that looked related was someone else asking the same question on another forum; the thread was a few months old, and there were no replies. -K

Hello, FMForums community. I am completely new to FileMaker, and learning FileMaker just became the cornerstone of my career, so you guys probably aren't getting rid of me anytime soon. Let me explain. I'm a college student (computer science major) that managed to land a job as a systems administrator at a small business. The owner is a close family friend. Since I had proven my usefulness to him on several occasions by keeping the shop's computers up and going whenever there was a problem, when he heard that I have problems at my job, he decided to (finally) take me on-board and let me work for him. Our company buys and sells plastic injection molding machinery and parts, and we have been using FileMaker since the Nutshell days. The owner used to develop and maintain our database, but these days he is so busy with every other aspect of running the company that he doesn't have time to work on the database anymore. That's where I come in - he wants me to learn FileMaker. My first major project is going to be getting parts of our database to dynamically display on our website using FileMaker's PHP API. I want to use Joomla! as a CMS, and that's where things are getting kinda sticky. I'm installing all this software on my workstation (running Windows 7 Ultimate x64) for testing purposes - there are no 'servers' involved, per se, at this point. At first, I installed FMS11, and it worked fine. Then, I tried to install Joomla!, and every time, something just wouldn't work - usually something involving the SQL server. Well, to simplify things, I decided to install WAMP. WAMP refused to work properly, for reasons that I can't remember (but that I know involved MySQL). I decided to uninstall FMS11, to see if that would make a difference; lo and behold, WAMP ran great and Joomla! installed. This morning, I tried installing FMS11 again; it installed without incident, but now when I try to run the Admin Console, I get the error. I'm completely new to all of this - Joomla! (and CMSes in general), PHP, FileMaker, and FileMaker Server, and I have no idea what my next move needs to be. Is it even possible to run Joomla! and FMS11 on the same machine? If not, what do I need to do next? A side note: When I installed FMS11, I had IIS 7.0 enabled. WAMP and IIS weren't playing nicely, so I disabled IIS. As it turns out, it was because they were both trying to use localhost:80. I enabled IIS this morning and changed the default port to localhost:90, so now IIS and WAMP will run side-by-side. I don't know if this has anything to do with this whole mess. Thanks to anyone who actually read this whole thing. I appreciate any help or advice. -K EDIT: Since the FMS11 installation is more mission-critical than anything else right now, I uninstalled WAMP, set IIS localhost back to port 80, and re-installed FMS11 again... and still that stupid error message. I have no idea what to make of this. EDIT EDIT: So I did a System Restore back to a few days ago, when FMS11 was still working. Nothing. Then, I disconnected from the network, and what do you know? FMS11 started. I have no idea why, as my workstation is the only computer in the building that's running FMS11. I still have no idea what's going on.