My mom has a FileMaker Professional database she makes use of nearly each day. ~Each buy she makes she logs into it; she logs the hours of grandchildren who assist her; each test she writes comes out of it, and she or he writes checks close to each day. It is necessary to her monetary life.
This file ought to be mirrored to iCloud. It is usually in /Customers/mother/Paperwork/Foo/Foo.fmp17
(I’ve AppleScripts I wrote years in the past that check with this location, and which she makes use of weekly.)
My mom has two separate exterior drives connected to the pc with Time Machine operating on them. They don’t exclude any folders. They had been down for the previous 5 days (as a result of the laptop HD was operating low on house), however they’re again up now.
She has had an alias to this doc within the Dock for years. At the moment she referred to as me as a result of it would not open when she clicked on the Dock. With display sharing, I confirmed. Cmd-clicking on the alias within the Dock mentioned the file doesn’t exist.
But, with Highlight I discovered the filename sitting on the location above. It was offloaded from the pc. The Date Modified confirmed November 2019. I opened the file (waited for it to obtain from iCloud) and confirmed that it was 5 years previously; it didn’t have any information for the previous 5-ish years.
I launched Time Machine, and…it thinks the file doesn’t exist earlier than right this moment. Stepping again by random snapshots going again months and much more than a yr, different information are on this folder, however THIS file will not be. I do not perceive how that is potential.
I assume iCloud had a concussion and by some means gave us an outdated file, although I can not perceive why it could have offloaded this file. (She was operating low on disk house, and iCloud is ready to dump older information, however this one is nearly-constantly in use.)
So…whom do I contact to try to get the file again? To make issues worse, FilemakerPro continually updates the DB while you do something. By opening the file from 2019 and performing a search, the file now has a modification date of proper now, which issues me that even when iCloud comes out of its coma, it’s going to suppose this file is newer and higher than something it had sitting round.