westlake

Thank you so much for your help. I do have the files on my hard drive and we are sharing via open remote. I'm going to have to do some planning on rebuilding this file from the ground up. Bleh.

Thanks for the reply! I'm considering getting the FMS the next time I upgrade my program, but for now I've got to stick with what I have. Any suggestions on what I might do to fix the immediate problem - getting the secondary computer to open the file remotely without causing further corruption? What is confusing me is that all the other files open remote just fine, but whenever I've tried today to open remote this one file, even an older back up of this same file, it corrupts the file on the host computer.

Sorry if this isn't the right spot for this question. I just stumbled on here today while searching online for some sort of idea of what is going on. The basic setup in my office is my computer running filemaker and hosting the various files I use and one other computer running it's own version of filemaker connecting remotely to mine to access the files. It has been working fine for years! But today, I tried to open a file remotely and it crashed Filemaker. I rebooted, it crashed again. I'm running Mac OSX on both computers. When I went back to the host computer, the file was no longer functioning. I closed it and tried to reopen it, but no dice. The file was corrupted somehow in the attempt. I've ran the recover function and it has retained all my data, but I don't know what to do about the other computer accessing this file. I tried once more to open remote and it again corrupted the file. Any suggestions on what to do? I'm considering uninstalling FM on the secondary computer and reinstalling it, but I'm not sure that I need to take that step yet. I've several other files we use the same way and they are all fine and will continue to open remote with no corruption. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!