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Authored by: Krioni on Jan 05, '04 03:17:46PM

This is a bad idea, unless you know that the machine shut down properly. If FileMaker Server (or the host machine) crashed, restarting with the files that were open during the crash can lead to corruption that is not repaired. FileMaker is supposed to do a Consistency check, and does, but I have seen (as have many others) damage that remains hidden a for a long time, eventually making your files (and all that programming) unusable. Any script that starts up FileMaker Server automatically should also grab the most recent backups of the files, and host those instead.



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