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I'm on a Win 2000 machine, running FmPro 5.0v3. Occasionally I'll get the following message when I try to open a Filemaker file by double-clicking on a shortcut icon. "The temp file "A2k 02-03.fp5" could not be created on the disk. Use a different name, make more room on the disk, or make it writeable." (There's an OK button.) The message appears before the password box comes up. I'm working off a 18.6 gig hard drive, with 15 gigs free, so I really have plenty of room for my 700k file. No server involved. After I click the OK button, I go to the File menu, click "open," choose my file from the list, and everything is hunky-dory from there on. What's …

I have been try to abort scripts from the keybouard using command-period or esc. But none of these work. The scripts don't have the abort script in them. I have tried clean db files and old in MacOS X and the scripts will not abort if I tell them to. The same db scripts will abort in MacOS 9. Has anyone seen this in FM 5.5v2 MacOS X.

With my employer finally updating to 5.5 recently, I finally started using 5.5 full time. To my chagrin, I find that Toolbars are not supported on the Mac side of the street. Do any of the guru's here know why it isn't supported? Are there any rumors/news as to when this feature will be fixed? Thank you for any news.

Hi there, I was just handed a FileMake Pro file mae in 2.1. Does anyone know how to open it up in FileMake 5.*. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jordan

I need to use special characters out of the font Lucida Sans Unicode in an FM database. MS Word allows me to allocate shortcut keys off the keyboard to type them into a document. Is there anything similar for FM so that I can get those characters into text in FM fields? I seem to be limited to only the characters that are accessed through the standard keyboard. I would ideally also want web published pages to display the font and special characters also. Can anyone point me to a plug-in or a solution?

FileMaker was running fine for a while with Mac OS X, but suddenly it has stopped working. I've not been able to think of anything which might have triggered the change. The symptoms are that it will launch and open files, but when it displays the file's window it gets as far as drawing the window border, title bar and white content-background, but then stops and sits with a spinning rainbow cursor forever (or at least half an hour before force-quitting FileMaker). All we can get is empty windows with spinning cursors. We've re-installed FileMaker from scratch with no luck. The same files open fine on other machines with the same version of the OS and FileMaker. Has…

Hello My company is looking into a database solution for the majority of our inner office forms and memos etc. I have been researching FMP and was wondering about the functionallity of FMP Unlimited. Of particular interest is whether a user accessing the database from the web is able to create, modify, and delete records on the database or whether the database can only be used to view data and perform searches. We need to have a database where clients can create records without having a local copy of the application on their desktop. In addition, what is the quality of the layouts in web form? If you make a layout in FMP, how good is its representation on …

Does anyone know if fmp 5.5 STANDARD will run on Win2000 SERVER ?? Here's my problem After installing fmp i tried to run it (with dbl click from a file or from the .exe) and the program does not start. I have view the process runnning an fmp is there, but there's no gui?! Someone can help ? [ March 06, 2002, 08:13 AM: Message edited by: Robiad ]

Does anyone know if there is a way to get FileMaker to interface with QuickMail on a PC ? We have written an AppleScript to do this on the Mac but haven't got a clue about where to start with the PC version.

When using the "Mail" script, is there anyway you can E-mail more then 1 field! Can you also use Microsoft Entourage as your Mail Application?

Can anyone recommend a backup software package that will backup open FileMaker databases? We run Filemaker 5.5 Unlimited on Windows 2000 Server. Thanks. [ March 05, 2002, 11:43 AM: Message edited by: Will ]

Does anyone know if the web server connector is capable of working with two or more web sites making connections to two databases? It seems that I can use the WSC with only one web site and one database at a time. Thanks

Hello Everyone! installed filemaker pro 5.5 on PCs & Macs. I am only able to connect to the host (filemaker server) from PCs. The Mac OS 9 clients can't see the server via the Host option from within filemaker pro 5.5. first time ever installing/configuring/working with any version of filemaker. Thanks for your help!!!

I am running a small (1.4KB) database with FM 5.0v1 on a PC with W2KPro. It is a PIII 333Mhz machine with three quarters of the 4GB disk space free and the max of 256RAM. When I make a compressed copy of the dbase, I get this error message: "There may not be enough disk space to complete this operation. FM will not be able to open the file if this operation fails. Proceed anyway?" I do proceed, and all is OK - but am I letting myself in for future problems? I couldn't find anything about this in FM support. On a (maybe) related note, the fields which have a lot of dependant relationshps are very slow to refresh when new data is entered. What makes the mo…

Do any of the updates for FileMaker 5.5 apply to 5.5 Unlimited? Should I use the FileMaker Pro 5.5v2 updater on my FileMaker 5.5 Unlimited? Should I use the FileMaker Pro 5.5v3 Web Companion updater on my FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited Web Companion? I'm attempting to run FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited on Windows 2000 Professional. My server is a G4 running OSX (10.0.4 client) with FileMaker Server 5.5 I'm experiencing many problems. My system works great and has for about a year now with FileMaker Server 5.5 on the server and FileMaker 5 Unlimited on my Windows 2000 machine. As soon as I update the Unlimited 5 to 5.5 on the Windows 2000 machine, Unlimited just stops w…

I purchased Lasso 5, Webstar V and Filemaker Unlimited 5.5 and now I find out it wont work together. Filemaker informed me that its products do not support Webstar V and they only work on Apache. Has anyone here got them to work together? Archive.zip

Are the Filemaker Templates able to be run in 5.0? It mentions on the site that at least FM5 is needed, but other areas it mentions that the templates are for 5.5. Is it just a way to get us to upgrade? Or can the templates work with 5.0?

We need to provide our existing application to a user who uses FileMaker the French version. What kind of difficulties should we anticipate? Does FileMaker "converts" everything (is it a one-time conversion)? or is it seemless?... I am ordering the French version to see for myself but I was wondering if anyone out there had stories to share with going from the English version to another language...

...and the solution on FileMaker's support site does not work! http://www.filemaker.com/ti/107897.html There is no "Cancel" button, only a "Stop" button. Pressing that does not produce a navigation dialog, only a warning about canceling the installation, then returns to the main installer window. I have posted several Instant Feedbacks, to which I have yet to be graced with a response. [ February 23, 2002, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: Lambda Enterprises ]

is there any way the when filemaker opens a file with from a script or portal that it does not use the same password to open the file by this i mean that i have a password for one file which allows every one full access to the records but a second file i want limited to browse only but with one person that has a separate password to beable to add rec but when it opens it opens this file with the first password and does not give the oppportunity to enter the higher password help

Hi there I just installed FMP 5.5(used 2.1 a long time) and now i have a poblem. During startup the program starts to dial my internet connetion,without any apparent reason. How do i stop it from doing that? Thanks Mats B karlstad Sweden

Strangest thing: I cannot delete records in my Web-enabled, FileMaker Pro 5 Unlimited databases--UNLESS I use the Web companion to do so. I have several databases set without passwords so that users may freely access them through the Web server. If I pull up a database in FMP, select a record by clicking on it, and then click on the Delete Record button, nothing happens. I get NO "Permanently delete this ENTIRE record?" prompt--as one normally would. Nothing. If I access the same database using Instant Web Publishing, however, it WILL let me delete records. Also, if I copy this database file onto a different computer, then I CAN delete records. Any idea what's up?…

I work for a small business which uses Quickbooks for time-tracking and bookkeeping purposes. We also Filemaker to track our projects. Time is tracked in both applications which adds up to time-consuming time-tracking. They are happy to do away with using Quickbooks if they can find a way to have filemaker perform the same functions Quickbooks does as far as reports, calculations, etc. I was assigned to the projecta dn whereas I have database management experience, I have never worked in Fielmaker. My question is not "Help me do it", but simply: Is it possible to have filemaker perform bookkeeping functions? Any help is greatly appreciated. Diana (glimmrmoon)

When you recover a file, can you create the clean clone from the recovered file then import the data from the recovered file to the clone?

I recently downloaded the new "FileMaker Solution Framework" from the FileMaker Web sight. I would like to know what you think about it as a template to build a custom solution. Comming from FileMaker I know it has to be an excellent solution. But is it what you would use as the starting point for desinging your own custome solution? Thanks for your input. Harry

Hello, Does anyone have any info on what might be on the horizon for Filemaker 6? better scripting? ejection seats??

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I just had a problem which is probably simply an error on my part, but I wanted to check. I had two versions of my project in separate folders (12 DBs in each folder). While working on the layouts, FM 5.5 suddenly began opening related files in the wrong folder. When I looked in the window menu, I had two of everything, wasn't sure which ones I was changing, etc. The thing that worries me is that this is an industrial DB which will be frequently backed up. Is it possible for FM Server (which I was not running at the time) to mistakenly track down the wrong DBs (in the wrong folder) and serve up obsolete info? Or is that just a FM 5.5 problem? Thanks Stanley

ugh.. i have just upgraded to a p4 (is that really an upgrade??) but i noticed that filemaker seems to have some issues... every now and then while I am resizing a box or a field filemaker will go spinning out of control into some sort of internal endless loop which send my entire system halting. it's not really crashed, just eating up CPU cycles so fast I cant get a work in edgewise and have to usually just flip the power to get back to work. of course this corrupts my databases which is always fun. anyone else having probs with p4 or seen this problem? i worked for years on a p-3 with no major problems... hmmm thanks!

How can I use a SQL query to seek in FM? I can't find som instructions till how to do this in the handbook and I want to use SQL because I'm used to it.

I'll try to explain my problem the best I can, but before I do, it only occurs while using the computers at my school (where the file is shared). When it was taken off the network for me, and I took it home, I did not experience these problems. I don't handle the networking side to the server, but I would like to tell the man who does, what to try to fix this. When people are using the database, it will freeze up, after changing the cursor to a coffee cup. Other times, it won't allow new entries into the database. And most recently, it will not allow me (using the "all access" password) to edit things, via ScriptMaker, etc. which I could do before. To my knowled…

Have you looked for an updated printer driver?

I have been asked to create a database that allows users on a WAN to transfer files via FileMaker. The files are going to be relatively small files 50K or smaller. One end of the process is going to enter a job number and other info and then attach the txt file to that record. The other end will find the job number they need to work and then detach the txt file. I have FM Server 5.5 running on a mac. Is this possible in FM or do I need a plug-in. Thanks, Brian

I'm in the market for a new laptop & most are now pre-instaled with Windows XP home edition. The FM website says that they are not testing anything but FM Pro 5.5 with XP and that all other versions use XP at their own risk. I use FM Pro 5 & don't really want to spend another $249 US just to upgrade to 5.5. Has anyone found any problems using FM Pro 5 with Windows XP??? Art PS> I think it's kind of greedy for Filemaker not to test all versions of Filemaker with new Operating systems.

Does this version exist? Linux Filemaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited. [email protected]

Just posted new topic in Security issues re dmaged files. Done a search and not encouraged by what I read. I don't think I have suitable back-up. If I have to rebuild my files from scratch, can I import layout elements and scripts from the recovered files, to make the process quicker ? Hopeful, Andrew Bruno

Does anybody know where I can download Filemaker 1.0? I'm also looking for Filemaker reader 1.0 & 2.0, if something like that exists (like Acrobar reader)... Thanks in forward. Marnix

If the database is closed, just dulpicate the database in the OS. If it is open, use the Save a Copy As... command.

We have a FMPro database (v5.0) and want to drap & drop Microsoft Word documents (icons) into a FMPro text field. Ideally, this action would immediately convert the document to FM and paste it in an open format into the field. I tried dropping the Word doc icon onto the FM icon, which launches FM... but then delivers an error message of "not enough memory". This happens even if no other applications are running and I dedicated 60mb of RAM to the application. Any suggestions? Is there a text converter or apple script I need?

Hello, We have a file that was FileMaker Pro 4.0 and was converted to 5.5. When you look at the fields in Layout it shows the Font sizes as the correct ones (12pt, 14pt ) but when you print it, it is 200 to 300% larger (24pt, 42pt). Help, these are timecards and my time is running out to resolve this. Thank you, Kim

Hi there, I have worked with filemaker for about 6 months so far and beginning to actually like it. Even though I would prefer filemaker to provide more and more programming features - I usually get around with what's provided. I have created some heavily loaded applications so far. Heavily loaded applications as in for example the "database design report" type of application where alomost everything is done via script and very different type of data has been scrambled into one single database. Well, now my boss wants me to create web version for them. Hence come the questions of Filemaker Unlimited: 1. Does Instant web publishing only work with Microsoft Internet Exp…

I recently downloaded the new "FileMaker Solution Framework" from the FileMaker Web sight. I would like to know what you think about it as a template to build a custom solution. Comming from FileMaker I know it has to be an excellent solution. But is it what you would use as the starting point for desinging your own custome solution? Thanks for your input. Harry

We keep getting "damaged file" or "corrupt file" errors on MacOSX/FM5.5 machines accessing a FM database located on a PC server. The errors arise after the files have been backed up or copied to laptops for field work. There seems to be no difficulty unless and until the files are copied from or changed on the server. The remedy is to perform a Recovery. This has become a daily event after the overnight backup runs or the sales reps copy the database. As an experiment, accessing the database with a Mac running OS9 and FM5.0 seems to work fine after the backup run..... Curious! I have a small mixed network (Mac and PC). A colleciton of relational FM files is store…

Hello, and thank you all for useful tips for a newcomer like me. I have one problem (only one ) and I hope there is a solution to it, even if I can’t figure it out: I make a lot of business reports (like price lists), and I would like to have an index based upon the sub-summary break fields as well as page number. It should be placed in the beginning of the report, typically like this: INDEX Page 1 Bulbs Page 3 Contacts Page 6 Outlets etc. The Index should be based upon the page that this break field appears in first. I have found the solution to some part of the problem by using the status function (currentpagenumber) i…

I have FM 4.1 and wish to have a DB accessed across a simple LAN using. Up to 5 people access at the one time. I understand that an upgrade to FM 5.5 can come with a 5 access licenses. This sounds like the easiest way to go. Is this correct?

FMPro 4 "doesn't want" to delete my cardfiles anymore, but it did it before, How can I do it again?

I am running FM server 5.5 on a dedicated G4 which is running OS10.1.2. I have several users connected using FM 5.0 with OS9.1 and I am using client 5.5 on my G4 400mhz laptop, which is running OS10.1.2 My unit is very slow compared to other users. Look-up fields take as long as 15 seconds to activate, but are instant on other units. Also, when switching between screens it takes 5-10 seconds for the screen to appear - begins with white screen with spinning disk. Any suggestions?

Hi all. I'm entering a client's data into a database - the largest section of this is 4000 records holding images and keywords. The problem I'm having is that FileMaker keeps bugging out on me. It seems that if I enter over around 200 records without closing and reopening the file, the database becomes corrupted, and I have to recover it. Which doesn't always work. The data set is quite large - two small JPEGs (about 30K each) and one large JPEG (about 300K) plus various text fields. Is FMP flipping out over the size of the data? Thanks. Stanley

I run FMPro unlimited AND FMPro Server on the same box and it just rocks. THERE ARE NO RULES except: do you get the performace you need? If yes then great! JF

Is is possible to have a portal display the records of another database without using a relationship? I have an office-wide contacts database that would be used to help populate project specific contact databases. Something like a layout for the office-wide list, and a layout for the project list, but with no real relationship between the two. Since we have consultants that we use on multiple projects, their records should appear in both places, as well as have some different info for that consultant for each project. Hope I'm making sense.

I am going to be printing 10,000 personalised letters from FMP on a high-end postscript colour laser, via OSX.10.1.2. I'm printing the whole letter, so I want to include inline images. These are going to be large 300dpi colour pictures. What does FMP5.5/OSX support? Can I use PDF (it is the replacement for PICT as the default format in OSX)? Can I use TIFF and EPS, as I would printing from Quark Xpress? Or should I stick with the widely-supported PICT? I'm after the best image quality I can get here. If anyone's tried this, or can hazard a guess, you'd save me a heap of time trying things out. [ January 10, 2002: Message edited by: dylan ]

I have inherited a FileMaker Pro 4.0v1 application. Unfortunately it comes with no documentation for FileMaker or the application. I made a change to the application and need to update the user's .EXE file, however I cannot for the life of me figure out how to create the .EXE (runtime?) file for the user. Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to create this runtime file in FileMaker Pro 4.0v1? Or let me know what software I need to buy to get this going. Thanks .mark.

I have a running database for a client that uses the Troi Grabber plug-in. The database is a log for stills for a production company. The grabber plug-in is used to grab images from a Beta deck or scanner. Everything was working great until the database file exceeded 2Gigs. I was not aware of the 2Gig file limit, and now must fix this problem. As far as sizes goes, the database will need to accomadate (eventually) 250,000+ records, each with it's own image attatched. Does anybody have a suggestion? I have no problem with capturing the image, then saving the image as a sperate file, then using the "store only a reference to the file," but how can I do this? Also, if I ca…

I am tearing my hair out trying to make the records which match Last Name and First Name with existing records result in an update of all the data that has been changed. When I set it up as it seems to indicate in the "books", indicating update matching records in current found set and add remaining records, even when I am importing a minorly altered COPY, so I know there are matching records, it doesn't happen. I have made First Name and Last Name be the "matching fields" and everything else is straight replace if those match..... The import whirls and acts as if it is doing what it is supposed to be doing and then BAM, it happily proclaims there are no records that…

Hi, The following is one of the paragraph of readme file during intallation of FMP 5.5 "....It is possible to have both FileMaker Pro 5 and FileMaker Pro 5.5 installed on the same system with unique preference sets. In Windows, however, uninstalling FileMaker Pro 5 will remove preference settings for both versions, and all FileMaker Pro 5.5 settings will revert to defaults....." That's mean:in Windows, if we uninstall 5.0 AFTER install 5.5, then FMP 5.5 does not run properly because all the preference settings are removed. Is it right? If it's so, then we should uninstall 5.0 first, then install FMP 5.5???? The reason I asked is that I want to remove FMP5.0 from m…

i'm converting TIFF files into GIF format using Photoshop then i tried to import them into FM 5 and sometime computer crash or the GIF image is corrupted (only lines are appear in the FM fields) My files are on a FM server and when the computer crash the file is no longer available on the server... Same GIF are OK when i open it with other applications like IE 5, Photo editor, etc... any idea : Tks Eric

hi, we are currently running FM Pro Unlimited 5 as a web server for a small database. It's the only thing running on that system, I would like to set it up as a Windows 2000 service. We purchased the software back in August, before Unlimited 5.5 was released. I thought I saw then that 5.5 would include running as a service, but I don't see it mentioned as a feature now that it has been released. The hardware is a Dell Poweredge 2550, software is Win2000 server. So my questions are: 1) does version 5.5 support running as a service? 2) my alternative is to put FM in the startup group and have the system automatically logon. Any better ways to do this? thank you!

I have just re-installed Filemaker onto a PC and get the following message The maximum number of licensed users are currently using this copy of Filemaker Pro. However they aren't, this is just a reload the software having first removed it to solve a printing problem. HELP....

Hi, I'm using the following calcuation to automatically generate a six digit PIN number: Round(Random* 1000000, 0) This calcuation works fine. However, I have noticed that sometimes this calcuation will generate a PIN with ONLY 5 digits (rather than 6.) Q: Is there a better method to calculate a six digit PIN? Thanks.

Hey kids. A long long time ago, when I was downloading every FM solution that I could find on the Web, I found one that listed all of the html colour codes (eg. #FFFFF0, etc.) and showed a block of each colour. Since I knew nothing about html, I trashed this useless file. Well, now I'd really like to find this wonderful file again. Does anybody have it, or know where it is? Thanks. Paul

How do I find a list of new features of Filemaker 5.5 against version 5.0 Thank you

I recently upgraded from FMP4.1 to FMP5.5. I just went to work on some ideas for a FileMaker-centric Web page I wanted to build (allegedly improved Web publishing was one of the reasons I upgraded). I find that unless I'm missing something, there is no support or documentation in 5.5 for custom Web publishing at all. In other words, FileMaker decided to DELETE from an UPGRADE a valuable and useful feature of their earlier product. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm blind. Tell me I'm missing something. But don't tell me these guys could be this stupid.

Running Mac OS9.1 upgrading FMPro 5.5v1 to 5.5v2 with the FM updater. It appears to update the app correctly, creating a file called FileMaker Pro.old and a new FileMaker icon appears but then it stops and says, "An error prevented the update from completing. Invalid file selected for updating." Huh? The next dialog gives an error code to boot: 11002:2,-14. Help! [ December 23, 2001: Message edited by: Dan Shafer ]

I have a PC running FM Pro 5.0 and I want to connect to my server that is running 3.0 on a Mac machine. I go to Open Remote and it doesn't see the server, but I know that they are both on the same network. Let me know if you need anymore information. Your help is greatly appreciated. Take Care Utterman

I am trying to make a database-solution that is a bit to complicated for a newbie like me. Therefore i would be glad if i could get some Expert-help. I want to create like a controll-list. This is to be used by our small company when we are controlling that everthing is done when we have made a job. I want to have an editable list, so every "checkpoint" must be a single post. My idea is that i have two DB

I have to figure out in a network if on every computer a filemaker with a different number is installed. Where do I find this information? Thankyou for reading and eventually answering this question.

I am having difficulty setting up FMP 5 Unlimited on IIS 5 and would really appreciate some help. One of the main reasons for having difficulty is that FMP is not two-byte enabled so I have to use the Japanese version. This means that all the manuals etc., are in Japanese too. Bit too much to read and comprehend, so with excuses out of the way, here is our scenario followed by my questions: Scenario: We have a Win2k server with IIS 5 and FMP v5 Unlimited. In the FMP box there are two CD's. One is FMP v5, the other a Web Connector for IIS. Our IIS server is set with one IP address for two domains using host headers. "Domain-English" "Domain-Japanese" Both domains…

Can you mix Filemaker 5 and 5.5 in a network? Currently we are using 5.0 on all the computers, with a filemaker 5 server/ Thankyou for reading and eventually answering my question. Happy New Year to all you on fmforum.

You probably forgot to check the store compatible graphics option. Old Advance Man

I am not sure if I should be upset with Filemaker, Microsoft or both. I depend heavily on Filemaker for a number of solutions used in my company and others I have written for associates. Because Macs are very rare in Kenya and Tanzania, I have been using PCs for most of my work and have a number of solutions in 4.1 and 5.0. Because 5.0 won't allow editing a 4.1 file and leave it available to 4.1 users (and not all of my associates want to spend the money for 5.0) I have to run both on my computers. Now I made the mistake of getting Windows XP which has helped solve some of my other Windows issues on general stability, but neither 5.0 nor 4.1 are supported by Microsoft…

I find this Forum very helpful. Does anyone know of a good Windows 98 user to user forum? Thanks, NHuser

Installed Filemaker Pro 5.5 on my Mac G4. Now I cannot open a file by double clicking as I did in 5.0 - but must drag the file into the Filemaker Pro Icon to open it or open the Filemaker program first. What am I doing wrong? Sorry to be such a beginner. bthoma

hello, i'm looking for a solution to center all my elements automaticaly in differents screens sizes when i make a runtime with fileMaker developer. i'm trying to make a "lookLike CD-rom" in a full screen mode only for consulting the database. is anybody have a solution or an example. thanks a lot for your help. [email protected]

Just updated to MAC OS9.2.2 (without MAX OS X, i did not install it) Now when I double click on a FMP5 file, FMP 5.0v3 lauches but does not load some on the plug-ins in the FMP5 extension folder. To make it work I have to drag the FMP5 file on the FMP5v3 application Icon. This is very very strange. Has any one seen that before??? [ December 19, 2001: Message edited by: Notr ]

On a Mac OS 9.2, double clicking on any filemaker data file results in the message: "FileMaker Pro could not be launched because of incorrect installation, missing system components or insufficient memory. Please see FileMaker Pro documentation." I have over 500Megs of memory, and if I launch FileMaker Pro 5.5 and then open the data file, it opens correctly. I have had a previous FileMaker Pro version (4.1) on the system. I removed it without solving the problem. I have looked at the File Exchange control pannel and included references to FMP5 and correctly pointed the FMP3 file type to FileMaker Pro 5, without solving the problem. Any experience with this …

Hey there! We're running Windows NT 4.0 in a Novell-Network. We've got big problems with FileMaker! After using FileMaker the whole Machine is getting VERY slow...This stays till a Reboot! We have this Phenomen on EVERY Machine FileMaker is running on! I need a Fix for this Problem or we have to kick FileMaker!!;-(

We do a lot of faxing in our business and have one problem. Or only one that I

Hi, This is a difficult one to explain. We have a seperate customer database for each customer. We can't put them all in one DB as there would be 100 thousand records and would take forvever to sort. How could we change from having 50 DBs to just 1 or 10 etc??? Thanks, James.

I've successfully installed FM 5.5 for OS X (10.1.1 on a Dual 533) and launched it with no problems. However when I try to run the new updater, it stalls at a dialog box that says "One moment please..." which is just after it has quit all applications. FM 5.5 resides in an Apps folder I've created; it does no good to move FM 5.5 to the Apple "Applications" folder. Restarting doesn't help. A "Force Quit" is required to exit the Installer. I also installed a OS 9.x Classic version off FM 5.5 and updated it with no hitches. Any suggestions? Thank You! Omrudi

When every I print from OS X I get a strange yellow highlight in the fields. Sometimes not all of them. Any idea what can be causing this? JM

I'm contemplating purchasing FMD5.5. I have been working on a product for some time for in-house use and now want to turn it into a product and creating a stand-alone is clearly the right way to go. But I have two questions for which I can't find answers anywhere that I've looked. 1. Can users of the stand-alone application define new layouts and/or change existing layouts or is that functionality "locked out'? 2. Could several users of individual copies of the stand-alone application share the same data files over a network or are the files somehow compiled with the app, precluding that use? Thanks.

My question is: are there any problems that my crop up in the future with my current system? Is this system compatable with 10-25 users on a LAN? Is there a better way? I have a LAN with several guests connected to FMP5Server host computer (all macs) for the FMP5 database files, one of which holds the "referrence" for scanned images. The images are scanned by one of the guest computers with vistascan software and saved on a separate computer (scan host) that is on the LAN and the reference to is is saved into a containor field in one of my database files. Before anyone can connect to my database from one of the host computers, they first have to get the shared files (c…

I have 4 computers USB networked. 2 computers are 5.0 & 2computers are 5.5. Can I synch back & forth between computers w/ these 2 different versions of FM? I am trying to save buying new software & get by w/ 5.0 for a while. Kurt

I downloaded the demo version to try out Filemaker for Windows. I installed it the moment it downloaded (which was a lot of moments!), but it came up with "This version has expired. Please use a newer version." I got it from the actual FileMaker site today. Anyone have any ideas? WHardy7

Hi, can anyone tell me why FM Pro takes such a long time to boot up? I checked out the performance monitor: after FM has taken some processor cycles nothing happens for about 10 to 15 seconds. It seems that FM is scanning the network for any other running instances. Is that right? Has anyone encoutered a similar problem? Does anyone have any solutions? Thanks, JohanneS

I've been looking over Scriptology on their web sight and would like to hear from anyone using it. At $399.00 I would like a litte feedback before making a purchase. I'm no expert by any means, but I've been around FileMaker long enough to get around. I want something to get me to the next level that is done in simple, easy to understand language. With templates to show the form and style of good file building and good information on both scripting and calculations Is Scriptology for me? Thanks for your help, HJ

I've been using Filemaker for 15 years and currently have 5.0 Windows version. I use a Dell PC with a Pentium III processor and 256MB of RAM. I daily use about 10 different relational databases and one is 100MB in size. I continuously use my Filemaker databases for 8 to 10 hours every day. Recently, especially in the 100MB database, but also in a couple of my smaller databases, I have had to Recover them (3 times in the last 2 weeks for the 100MB database, and once each for 3 of my smaller ones). This had almost never happened in the past (except maybe 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years). Just prior to having to Recover them (and it always shows no records or data s…

Anyone know if FileMaker runs on Windows XP machines?

The 5.5v2 updaters for FileMaker Pro have been released and are available on the FMI web site. Thre are updaters for Windows, for MAcintosh OS 9, and for Macintosh OS X. These updaters include the WC 5.5v3 updaters. All this is for the English versions only. Old Advance Man

Are there any issues of running Filemaker Unlimiited 5.5 on a Windows NT Workstatation as it seems to take up a lot of processing power? Or should we upgrade to Windows 2000 Pro to solve the issue?

Hi everybody I have tried to access the help in Filemaker and theres a erros in file FMPro50.hlp ...can anybody send the file to [email protected] for windows 2000 version thank you carloscardoso

Not major problems, just small quirks. Search this forum

http://www.fmforums.com/ubb/images/icons/crazy.gif I just upgraded to FM 5.5 and I can't get it to run. It starts to load, then when it gets to the "Apple Talk loaded successfully" and it locks up. I am running it on a G4 with OS 9. Our PCs seem just fine with the new version. Has anyone run into this?

What is the best solution for backing up FileMaker Server 5.5 on a PC.

I’m looking to increase my knowledge of FileMaker and would appreciate your recommendations of training materials. I would say my current level of expertise in FileMaker is intermediate, but I’m weak in scripting and calculations. I use FileMaker 5.5 on PC & Mac Thanks, Harry

I am sure this is old news...and I know upgrading to a newer version is the answer but...I am supporting a user with this older version... Is FM 3.x compatible with Windows 2000 Pro? any tricks to keep/make it compatible...keep it stable? Compatible with Windows ME?

I have updated filemaker pro 3.0 to v6 on a few machines and I notice that now sometimes they double click on the icon and the splash screen for filemaker flashes on then off, but filemaker never loads. I either have to wait a while or reboot the machine to try to get it to work. I have seen this once on a machine with v3 installed now. Any ideas?

I am a user of FM Pro 5.0v3 at debutant/intermediate level. I am a PC User but have been a Mac user too. (I went to PC platform not by choice but obligation; I am still a Mac lover in my heart!!!) Thank to Filemaker, FM Pro is cross Platform... Since we, my wife and I, have a new retail business that I would eventually put on the web and also, on my side, I will have to developpe some database (or solutions) that I would like to run as standalone apps or in kiosk mode, is FileMaker Pro Dev 5.5 the way to go? I am not a MS fan nor I like software or companies that take control of my computer or decide for me what I should like... My other question is how to compare …

Howdy - I have a database of donors and donations to a foundation with various associated related files (programs, campaigns, correspondence, etc.). One of the files (Gifts, the one that keeps track of the donations) is really huge (250+ megs), and I wonder if I've done something stupid to make it so big. We're also finding network access of the database to be very slow, and we need to have several people answering the phone and entering donations staring next week. The Gifts database has something like 120,000 records. The newest of these records have related line items in another database (imagine your basic invoice setup), but the vast majority have none because they…

Dear All, I have FileMaker Pro 5.0 clients running on different Windows versions, and a FileMaker 5.5 server running on a Windows 2000 Server. I wanted to know if there is a way in filemaker to force a filemaker database to use the server machine's Time & Date settings in time & date feilds. I appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.