Verifying hosted files
Verify the integrity of one or more hosted databases with Normal status.
To verify databases:
1. Click the Activity > Databases tab.
2. Open the Databases folder, the additional database folder, or the group folder, if required.
3. If you are verifying selected databases, select one or more Normal databases.
4. Click
, then choose
Verify or
Verify All. The
Status changes to
Verifying.
5. If a client is connected to one of the selected databases, do the following in the Verify Databases dialog box that appears:
• For Delay time, enter the number of minutes between when the notification is sent and when clients are disconnected.
• In the text box, type the message to send to
clients before they are disconnected.
• Click Send Message.
Clients see a notification dialog box with your message requesting they close their connection to a file.
When the delay time elapses, FileMaker Server disconnects any remaining clients, closes the selected databases, verifies them, and then reopens the databases that were successfully verified. If a database fails the consistency check, you must use FileMaker Pro to recover the file. For information on recovering damaged files, see FileMaker Pro Help.
FileMaker Server logs a message in
Event.log indicating the success or failure of the consistency check.
Notes
• If you are a group administrator, your server administrator must configure your administrator group to allow you to verify hosted databases in your group folder. For more information, contact your server administrator.
• To indicate that FileMaker Server is performing the consistency check, the Status of the databases being verified changes from Normal to Closing, then to Closed, then to Opening, then to Checking and then to Normal (if the consistency check passes) or to Closed (if the consistency check fails). For a small database, some of the status messages may occur too quickly for you to see.
• It may take several minutes to verify many database files, a large database file, or a database with many connected clients.
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