email files

[Silhouette]

A friend sent me a FM file as an email attachment. The file came through but there was no data in the fields. What happened?

[EddyB]

Your friend could have cloned the database file and sent you the clone - a cloned file contains all layouts and fields etc but no records. Justs makes the file smaller for sending to people - obviously no use if you want the data that the database holds!

[Lee Smith]

Hi Silhouette

Is this a trick question or something?

Why are you asking the list why data wan't contained in the file, why not ask the sender why they sent an empty database?

Lee

[BobWeaver]

There is nothing in the process of emailing that could strip the data records out of a Filemaker file but still leave the rest of file intact. As Eddy and Lee have already pointed out, the sender must have accidentally sent you an empty file.