Saving File Names

Question

I'm using FHMX on Mac OS10. At times when saving an existing
file without changing the file name, the file will automatically
change to another name (seems like a "default" saving file name is
preset). So everytime after I save an existing file, a new file
name will appear and i'll have to change back the file name to the
one i've previously named it. Is this possible or is it because the
program is corrupted?? Can anyone advice? Tks!

Answer 1

james07 wrote:
> Hey thanks for the reply, really appreciate your help.
> This is one of the following senario.....
> was working with FH8 in one workstation. Saved file name
(eg. project.fh8).
> Linked my station to an external harddisk mounted on
another (2nd) station.
> From the 2nd station, open the project.fh8 file with MX.
After I try to upgrade
> and overwrite the same file with MX, it appears that the
file name has changed.
> I dun remember the default file name for it but i
suspect it's the name of an
> existing file that was saved within the 2nd workstation.
And this happen a few
> times when i transfer different files to that station.
It always save to that
> particular filename!!
>
>
When Freehand MX opens an old Freehand file, as Judy wrote,
it condenses
the name and adds "(Converted)" to the end of it. So if you
just save
the file without fixing the file name it will save it as a
new file. To
overwrite the old file you'll have to make sure it saves as
the same
name as the old file. I don't know if it will cause problems
with
Freehand if you save an MX file with a ".fh8" extension
(haven't tried
that myself.) Though you could export it back out as a
Freehand 8 file.