The beginner just doesn’t have the experience and tools to digest and disseminate the advice offered. While the expert is generous with his or her advice, although perfectly accurate, it sails over the beginners head. I find many times, and this applies to any industry, when experts help beginners, the experts forget what it was like to be a beginner.
I was asked to write an article about my experiences, troubles, pitfalls and recommendations to those starting out with FileMaker. Today, modern FileMaker files are stored in Unicode so I'm not sure if the phrase is still there. No, it's not a virus! My understanding is the developers just needed to take up some space in the header and that's what they came up with. The big difference is that the File Maintenance feature works on the current file, so you don't have to swap out the old copy for the new one.īeginner, Intermediate and Advanced Video Trainingĭull Boy FileMaker files were stored in clear text prior to FileMaker 7 so, if you opened a FileMaker file in a text editor, you could see the phrase "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in the header repeated over and over. The File Maintenance feature in FileMaker Developer 7 and FileMaker 8 Advanced simply splits these two tasks into separate features (this feature is long gone in modern versions of FileMaker). Scripts, Fields and other areas of FileMaker are also optimized to increase performance by allowing similar data to be accessed sequentially. Blocks are swapped so that data in records are grouped together. Optimizing a file is a lot like optimizing your hard drive. Compacting a file merges partial blocks, so there are fewer and fuller blocks - thus creating a smaller file. FileMaker stores data in blocks and, when information is deleted, those blocks may become partially full. A compacted copy is a duplication of the file compacted and optimized. This feature allows you to save a compacted copy but not like WinZip or Stuffit. The Philosophy of FileMaker recommends PCI!įile Maintenance The Save A Copy As feature is available in FileMaker Pro, Developer and Advanced (they've changed the name a lot over the years).
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