[FX.php List] Folder path?

Bob Patin bob at patin.com
Mon Apr 23 06:12:31 MDT 2007


Don't think it's possible; I don't think the Mini can have a faster  
drive because of heat...


On Apr 22, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> 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
>>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>>> 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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