Not sure there is a book that addresses specifically this case, but check out the FileMaker Training Series III (http://www.filemaker.com/support/training/fts.html). This is a very comprehensive...

FileMaker is actually wholly owned by Apple... In my experience there are more drivers for Windows than for OS X - and in general, there are more FileMaker users on Windows than on Mac...

If you're using FileMaker 9 (and probably previous versions though I don't have the installers at hand to check right now), they're in a folder called xDBC on the CD/installation package.

If you will be doing much development, you should probably get some training, either from a trainer or just going through the tutorials that come with FileMaker.

Depending on what version you are...

This may not be very easy. I guess you don't have recent backups?

While trying to recover files, you should copy the files to a local drive and ideally work without a network connection. FileMaker...

Runtimes can not access databases hosted by the FileMaker Server application. It was possible a long, long time ago, but then they realized that nobody would by licenses anymore if they people do...

Hi Carmen,

External Data Sources currently support only certain SQL major databases (MySQL, Oracle and a few more), not Access.

If you want to connect to an Access database, you can therefore...

First of all, you would need to change your way of thinking a bit to realize that FileMaker is different from the systems you seem to have been working in so far, it has other strengths and other...

Is this in Access or FileMaker?

There is no problem building a complete developer-controlled environment using FileMaker, though thing certainly are different from Access. In FileMaker, the "default" is to let the user do "a lot",...

There is no direct way of importing Access files into FileMaker, not vice versa, as far as I now. If this is a one-time only thing, you could just do an excel, tab or other export. If you need to...

Depends on exactly how you want to do this.

If you actually import the files to FileMaker container fields (whether as references or storing them in the FileMaker file), GetAsText(ContainerField)...