Startup DB

[Plebuch]

Help! I can get FMP 5.5 to startup at Login, but I don't seem to be able to automatically open up a database. Under Mac OS, you added an alias of the document to the startup file, and it appears that OS X is the same; however, I can't get my database to automatically start up. I added FMP to the startup menu and it works fine, but my file goes nowhere. It works perfectly well if I manually start it up. Any suggestions?

[Plebuch]

In OS X, there is a LOGIN menu where you click "add" to put in a start-up application or file. It works differently from OS 8.x or 9.x and that is the problem. Thanks for replying.

Alice

[Keith Shelton]

Just tried it with FMP4 Mac 8.6 by placing one DB in Start Up Items. It worked fine, i.e. it launched FMP and opened the file. I hadn't tried this before as I open a Start Up file manually which in turn opens a list of other files but, yes it worked OK.

Are you only putting an alias of file and not FMP also as the latter might obstruct the former - just a thought!