I work in a cross platform environment. We have been passing filemaker files through the email system as attachments.

We use a webmail system and I am finding that many of the FileMaker files coming through the system are damaged beyond repair.

When investigating this problem I have found that different browsers yield different results. For instance if I use safari to download a filemaker attachment it will result in a corrupt database. But if I use Internet Explorer - it usually is successful. Has anyone experienced this type of behavior before?

I work in a commercial printing company and we have similar problems with many kinds of file attachments. The cheapest solution is to just compress the files with stuffit or pkzip before sending them. Since every mail program knows how to handle these formats they rarely get damaged. You just uncompress at the other end and you have a beautifully preserved FileMaker file. Think of it like bubble wrapping your FileMaker File before shipping it.

The way more expensive, but way nicer solution is to use FileMaker Server and just have everyone attach to it over the internet. That way there is no transferring of files and everyone is up to date all the time. You will not believe how slick this is.