I am wondering if there is any way to automatically update inserted, referenced files when I need to give my Filemaker database to someone else to use on their computer.

Edited August 18, 200916 yr by Guest

This is a matter of relative path, physical storage being permanent and finally access to the internet. I take it that storing images only as referred documents is possible of practical reasons even though documents can be stored directly in filemaker as blobs.

These are the general considerations, but without a specific description of context and purpose, is it near impossible to list the permutations possible, and similar would your digestion of such a list be waste of time.

Giving a database to some one else is where the things are getting blury right away ... what does it mean in your case?

--sd

I am creating a database on my computer that will be used later by people at another location (and no longer by me). I am going to give them the Filemaker database file and all the linked documents.

Then would I ditch referenced documents and instead store each of the images in the database. You can't perhaps not sneak a whopping file via e-mail ... but other services exists for such needs:

http://www.pando.com/what

Just for mentioning one....

--sd

When you insert a file into a container field as reference only, Filemaker stores both the absolute and the relative path to the linked file.