I have noticed that after I close a file it sometimes reopens a few days later. Any ideas? thanks

Power failure and a restart?

Start and stopped the server?

Ghost in the machine?

Related to another file?

These are hosted files on FileMaker Server that are doing this?

Steven

Steven - That is right.

It has only happened a couple of times and is sticking at the moment.

Restarted the server and the files reopened again.

Well, I am still not sure what you're doing here, but if you restart the database service all files will be reopened. You can prevent the database service from starting automatically-- and you should do this--when the server machine is restarted. There is a Console setting to do this.

Steven

Well that solves that problem then. Yes my DB server restarts automatically but I didn't know it resets the databases. If I stop the FM server first will that preserve the open/close settings?

No - if set to auto-start, FileMaker Server will automatically open all databases in the /databases/ directory, no matter what their previous state. You need to move any databases outside of said directory that you don't want opened.

- John

Just turn off the option to start the database server automatically.

Steven