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Maintaining and recovering FileMaker Pro databases
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5. Select one or more additional options to define how to scan and rebuild the new database
after the new file has been generated.
6. Click OK.
To use these settings the next time you recover a file during the same application launch, keep Use
advanced options selected in the “Name new recovered file” dialog box. To change these settings,
keep Use advanced options selected in the “Name new recovered file” dialog box, and click
Specify.
To revert to the FileMaker Pro default recovery settings, deselect Use advanced options.
Notes
• When Bypass startup script and layout is selected, the bypass will not be allowed if any
one of these conditions exist:
• a user fails three attempts to log in
• the accounts catalog is damaged
• the Admin account is missing from a runtime version of a file created by FileMaker Pro
Advanced
Select To Default
Scan record data and rebuild
fields and tables
Rebuild the file’s schema. This option forces all
records and field data to be scanned.
Note Scanning all the records and field data may take
a long time, but it’s the only option that re-creates
missing field or table definitions. If any fields or records
are at invalid locations in the file, only this option will
find and remove them.
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Scan and rebuild scripts,
layouts, etc.
Rebuild the file’s structure.
If the locale of themes stored in a file matches the
installed themes on disk, FileMaker
Pro will update the
same version or any newer version of themes stored in
a file.
On
Rebuild field indexes, and then
select Now or Later
Rebuild field indexes during file recovery, or later as
indexes are needed.
On, Now
Delete cached settings Remove the most recently used settings including
page format, print settings, layout formatting defaults;
and for every table in a file, the import and export
order, recent sorts, recent finds, the last found set, and
send mail options. (However, any saved finds are
recovered.)
On
Bypass startup script and
layout
Bypass any scripts or layouts that are normally used
when the file is opened. (Any scripts created in File
Options with the OnFirstWindowOpen or
OnWindowOpen
script triggers are disabled and
FileMaker Pro creates a blank layout into which the file
opens.) This option prompts you near the end of the
recovery process to enter an account and password
with full access to the database.
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