I designed a little system that uses looping scripts to achieve some of it's tasks. I don't want to use the system while Filemaker is doing it's thing, and I'd rather not dedicate an entire machine just to these looping scripts.

The source file is hosted on a machine running Filemaker Server.

I was wondering if there would be any problem with running 2 copies of FMPro7 on the same

machine under different user accounts ? One for general use of the file and the other just for the scripts.

If that wouldn't be a problem, would I want to make a copy of the Filemaker Pro 7 folder

and run that copy of FMPro 7 on the other user account ?

- you need a multi-user license. No network connection with 2 copies of FileMaker running same serial number.

- have not tested using 2 x FileMaker client with same IP addres. try it, probably won't work.

If the computer crashes you run the risk of corrupting the database.

I tend to leave things finish without interruption.