Please can you help.

I have a FileMaker database setup by a graduate that was working for us over the last few months. She has now left and has password protected the database.

First question: How do you specify the

a) try opening the database with option key down (mac) or shift (?) in windows

this will give access to the password dialog.

the demo at lostpasword retrieves the first letter of the pw. This may help.

I've used lostpassword before with success. It should solve your problem.

Do you know if lostpassword finds the username that was used?

Or if there is another way to find out the username in case 'admin' was not used? tx

There are no user names in FMP 6 and earlier, only passwords. FMP 7 introduced usernames.

FMkey also works very well at recovering lost passwords. However if she was smart she may have used non standard characters in her passwords. This results in fmkey returning a false password. The real password is recoverable it just takes a bit more mukin about to get it thats all.

FileMaker Version: Dev 7

Platform: Windows XP