I solved this issue (which wouldn't be an issue if FM would make the file reference relative as I think it was in an earlier version) by placing the images themselves on one computer and the database file on another computer. For example, I have images on a computer with a user named photoserver. I then connect to that computer as the user photoserver, which mounts a volume on my computer called photoserver. If I have the database on my computer, I import the images from photoserver as reference. This makes the path to the image photoserver:photofolder:imagefile. Then if other people open the file from my computer, they will have the same path and the image file can be found, if they first connect to the image computer as user photoserver and thus have a mounted volume called photoserver.
Note the network volume must be mounted manually, FM won't mount it automatically. If it isn't mounted, you won't see the image. Once you do mount it, they appear. The only computer that the file won't work on is photoserver, as there won't be a volume called photoserver. If this isn't clear, I'm not surprised. Mike Conner on 9/15/06 3:00 PM, Deborah Tinsley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I made up a nifty little catalog to identify all the images we have on CDs > and match them up with the database info. I inserted references to keep the > file size down and speed up operations. This file and the images reside on > our G5. > > I'd like to be able to work on it with my eMac or have my assistant work on > it (he had an iMac) remotely, in our offices. We are networked but don't use > FMP server software. The file is in FMP 8, but we only have one copy of 8. > We do have several copies of 7 which means we can open the file on our > remote computers. > > But we can't see the images. All you see is the reference. Is there some way > around this with networked computers? > > If I had inserted the images instead of the references would we be able to > see them? If so, I could run our 5000 images through a batch processor > making them into tiny thumbnails. The file would still be large, but it > might be worth it to be able to see the images. > > Is there some other way? > > Deb > > > Deborah Tinsley > Assoc. Librarian of Visual Resources > Kansas City Art Institute > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 816 802 3395
