Well, I am WAY behind the curve, I know, having stuck with "old
reliable" Filemaker 6 for way too long. Now I've got a Products
database that seems to be corrupting itself every 2-3 weeks, which
takes the form of certain records that go "bad" and cause the
database to crash (cause all users to color wheel to death) when
someone accesses one of the damaged records. I've repaired it a few
times by exporting the data to "Merge" format and importing it, which
basically works, but it's a huge job and I clearly need to move up to
Filemaker 8.5 instead.
My question is, is it absolutely necessary to remake my databases
from scratch, building the multiple tables onto one updated database?
Has anyone had experience with converting the mutli-file Filemaker
system without reworking the databases into one file? I am mentally
against the idea of my entire database being in one big corruptable
(?) file, and would like to know if converting and using as-is is
likely to be an option?
Any advice would be appreciated.
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