Pierre RION

I have built a 4.000 pictures database (the pictures are only referenced, not stored in the database). If I move the referenced container field image to a new folder it obviously disapears from the FM container field. I would like to edit the link in order to be able to move the pictures from my local disk to my Lacie external disk. avoiding to re-attach the file by navigating to its location in the appropriate dialog, picture by picture... I have made a test using ALIAS but it seems that the so called pointers bypass it. Is there a way to access and then globally edit (with a script ?) the referenced external image path to allow for the images to reappear in the Filemaker container field? Thanks for your help !

Hello I have a FM Catalog on my IBook containing 3000 pictures (JPG are not embedded - FM only stores the file path and name in the catalogue) . The size of the Data Base is 800 MBytes (meaning it doesn't fit on a single CD). I would like to export that Data Base to my other MAC. Having simply copied one by one the files of the FM folder Data Base and of course the "pictures JPG objects" to the other Mac, FM doesn't retrieve the pictures on the target Mac . I suspect that the path names of pointers to the JPG files are not the same when moved... But for a smaller pictures data base of 300 MBytes, I had made a simple copy of the FM folder to a CD and the data Base worked on any Mac or PC. ... May be I see a way to solve this : export a flat version a the Database, copy the exported "flat" elements to the other Mac and then import the database in a newly FM catalog created on the target Mac. Can somebody validates that solution and explains me how to do it if it is possible...