
The most common cause of file damage is an unexpected application termination or quit. As the file is used, updated data is written from data buffers in RAM to the hard drive. Instead, the application transfers data as needed from the hard drive to RAM and back. In order to understand how file corruption occurs, it is useful to know how FileMaker Pro manages data.įileMaker Pro is a disk-based application, so it does not need to load the entire database into RAM as the file is opened.

Although the Recover feature might be able to salvage a damaged file, it is strongly recommended that you perform regular maintenance on your FileMaker Pro databases.

Power failures, hardware problems, and other factors can damage a FileMaker Pro database file. Maintaining and recovering FileMaker Pro databases
