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Re: Preferences Wiped Out! Grrrr

From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2003
Time: 5:03:02 pm

iNet7.com wrote:

> We ran auto-tasks last night. Somewhere after invoices and before past due
> notices....most of the preferences (maint>general preferences>any) and most
> of the employee preferences changed to blank, radio buttons unchecked
> (neither are checked) etc. This sucks.
>
> We perform backups at night...stopping the fmpro server and dumping....
> maybe the stoppage caused this?

How are you stopping FileMaker Server? You should not need to stop it at
all... instead, you can use the built-in backup scheduler.


> Any other ideas????? Any way to prevent this from happening? I've noticed
> a few fields here and there reverting and such...but not this is too much.

You can restore your Global_.fp5 file from backup if you want (the only
thing it contains is preferences).

- Shawn

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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696


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