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win xp pro, fm dev 7

I installed a new hard drive and emailed my interface and data files ( 2 .fp7 files) to myself, then downloaded themn and placed them in the same folder.

But when I open one, it doesn't find the other!

Even when the search window opens, and I pick the correct companion file,

the interface file opens with all the fields

saying "<file not found>"

Also going into the relationship graph ( which is kept in the interface file

with objects mapped to data files from the other .fm7 file)

al the diagram boxes also say "file not found"

Yecch.

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I think you have a File References problem. File references are the things that point to other files. They can include the relative path, the exact path, and/or a network path to the external file. It sounds like your file references may be setup with the exact path. It would account for your problems.

Fortunately, this can be fixed pretty easily, if this is what's going on. In each file, select File->Define->File References, and check each file reference one at a time. For a relative path to a file in the same directory, set the reference to:

file:YourFile.fp7

If the file is in a sub-directory, the path would be:

file:Directory/YourFile.fp7

If the file is in a sister-directory, the path would be:

file:../Directory/YourFile.fp7

The .fp7 at the end is optional for all of these.

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