[FX.php List] Folder path?

[Dale Bengston]

Hmm, would it be more expedient to put a better drive in the mini?

Dale

On Apr 22, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> Because the machine they're running FMSA on is a Mac Mini, which  
> has a slower hard drive; my theory was to have them put their  
> databases on a 7200RPM drive...
>
> I'm not sure I agree with the possibility that FMI was saving us  
> from ourselves; my suspicion is that it's a security issue that was  
> imposed by OSX Tiger; the ability to store databases externally  
> seems to have been affected by the latest OS X security update.
>
> But I don't know that for sure, of course... :)
>
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> On Apr 22, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Tom Sepper wrote:
>
>> Maybe this is a dumb questions, but why would you want to store  
>> your production database on an external drive in the first place?  
>> I can definitely understand the reasons for backing up to an  
>> external drive, but not for the actual database.  IO certainly  
>> would suffer if done.
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org on behalf of Bob Patin
>> Sent: Sat 4/21/2007 10:25 AM
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>> Subject: [FX.php List] Folder path?
>>
>> I want to start using an external HD for a database folder on my FMSA
>> machine; assuming my machines are labelled as:
>>
>> FMServer - machine itself
>>
>> HD -- external drive
>>
>> Databases - folder on the external drive
>>
>> I keep trying to use
>>
>> filemac:/FMServer/HD/Databases/
>>
>> but that doesn't work. I also tried
>>
>> filemac:/HD/Databases
>>
>> and that doesn't work either. What am I missing here??
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
>>
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