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Hello All. I have a strange problem. First of all, I am working on a Mac and believe that the problem might have come from switching between "Spaces," which I have always had enabled. Here's the problem: I was editing a very long calculation in FMP, that had not been saved. I switched to another application in another "space" for a bit, came back to FMP and could not locate the "Specify Calculation" window anymore. I could see the DB in the background locked under the"Manage Database" window. I cannot click on or select anything. Since I did not close the "Specify Calculation" window, FMP has become inactive. One solution is to click ESC and disc…

what is the hold shift to open a file equivalent in mac? i'd like to open it with user/password option

how to find out number of shown images in osirix using applescript. when we open any folder in osirix ,it shows no. of images counting on header portion.but now my question is---- i want to store this counting in applescript variable so that further transfer this counting into filemaker any field.

I'm sure this is incredibly self-evident and I apologize in advance. I'm about to add a second Mac to my home office and I want to use both machines to share the seven tables comprising my dBase. I'm running FM10.3 on Mac 10.5.7 and have a copy of FM11. I'm not sure I want to upgrade; I'm not convinced I'm missing ANYTHING in FM that I need. Regardless, I remain confused about: 1) do I need two copies of FM? 2) if so, do they have to be the same version - i.e., could I run 11 on the new [faster] machine and 10.3 on the old? I want the old machine to have read/write capabilities. I can't find anything on FM's site and everything I've seen so far …

Hey, Does anyone know how to change the commit key from [enter] to [return]? I'm on a new MacBookPro (which has no dedicated enter key) and I really don't use line breaks that often. It would be wonderful if I didn't have to hold [fn] every time I want to commit data. Thoughts? Alex

Mac, System 10.5.8 Does anyone else experience this new problem in FM 11? The mouse scroll wheel is unresponsive in every kind of list. It will scroll two or three times normally, then cease to respond at all or only extremely hesitantly and unevenly - making it more or less unusable. This is a huge annoyance to me.

Hi all, I have a Mac Mini running a copy of Filemaker Pro Advanced 9.0.3, sharing my database through filemaker networking to several other OSX laptops on a local network. All of them connect fine with the exception of one. As far as I can tell, it's identical to at least one other machine on the network, but obviously there's some setting misconfiguration somewhere which is stopping it. Symptoms: Client laptop (non-connecting) can ping and access/read/write files on the host mac mini, no problems. I have tried changing the client laptop's login credentials, and also played around a bit with the keychain settings (though it doesn't look like FM does mu…

We have a network of 6 FMP9 users, one on a Mac mini sharing files. A Powerbook had a drive fail and it was replaced with a new iMac running Snow Leopard. Installing FMP 9v3 and it hung during activation (verified we were providing the right serial number by first checking everyone else prior to assigning the correct one). Force quit and tried again and it claimed to successfully activate this time and all seemed good, but it will not show any of the files being shared by the mini. I am thinking that the activation didn't work well. Do I need to contact FMP or can I try anything to rectify this situation?

Our company (in the IT department) has been testing FileMaker Pro 10 and FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced running on Max OS X 10.6 for several months with great success. We just upgraded the rest of the office users to 10.6 and are now experiencing a problem we've not encountered before. Whenever any setting is changed in the "Preference" dialog, FileMaker Pro immediately crashes, and cannot be reopened unless we delete the FileMaker Preferences folder/file from the OS X Library Folder. The primary difference in the install from our test scenario to the production environment is the type of user account. In the IT office, we are primarily laptop users with local accounts…

How do I go about importing my MS Access database / files to FileMaker Pro on a Mac OSX platform? Can anyone direct in the right direction, which hopefully isn't too painful or expensive.

I upgraded to Snow Leopard, ran into tons of problems, and decided to revert back. I made a disc image of my hard drive, then wiped it and reinstalled Leopard. Now I can't find my FileMaker 9 Advanced serial number, so I'm wondering what I need to pull over from the image to get it working again? I copied over everything I found in the user/preferences folder, but I must have missed something...FileMaker keeps saying file it needs to run are missing or damaged. Can someone point me in the right direction here?

I have activated IWP on 1 of my databases but it cannot be accessed. I am hosting on a new iMac. I am using the address provided by FMP but no one else can access it. This is the address it says I should use. http://10.0.1.6:591 I have All Users selected. I am at a loss. Fitz

We have 2 separate/isolated networks running the same files (different data) and we are experiencing reproducible connection loss on both networks when exiting a field on the guest computer (FM6, Mac OS 10.4.11) with a file hosted by FM6 on Mac OS 10.5.6 on the main computer. Each network consists of one host and one guest only. There are a number of fields on the layout but the largest field containing the bulk of the data (the body of a letter) is related to the crashing of FM6 on the guest if the user accidentally moves out of or away from the field by tabbing/clicking or even moves to scroll the window or click into another field or button. This results in the record…

Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could help me with this problem. I have 2 imacs (new this year) running leopard sharing a database peer to peer. If I just use a d-link switch with no connection to the internet, and I click open remote... I see the other computer hosting the file and I am able to share it. However, if a use a d-link router connected to the internet I can see the other computer under hosts, but there is no available file. I called filemaker tech support and there is no serial number conflict. They said something about a possible loop occurring in the networking so that the client thinks there is a serial number conflict?: But, it does not b…

This doesn't look like the most active forum, but hopefully someone will share their experience. I run an FM 10v3 database on a 2.4GHz dual core late 2008 MacBook. It runs a fairly complex looping script nightly for data acquisition involving screen scraping from an HTML source. The entire script usually takes 4.5 hours to run. After upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, acquisition time has dropped to 3 hours. I know that Snow Leopard optimizes use of the dual core, but I fear this speed increase is too good to be true. I am worried that weeks from now I will find that I am missing data. Has anyone out there had a similar experience or care to comment? Than…

I have 5.5 on both our computers now, but one of them is facing retirement. If I upgrade to 10 on the one where the db resides, is it possible to network them? Or do I need to get another .fp7 version?

Hello, I'm trying to troubleshoot an FM database on a bot that imports FM data from a Filemaker Server to various mySQL tables. The issue is the FM bot loses communication with the host occasionally and I'm not sure why> It's not being disconnected from the host either. I was going through the console log and found a couple of items, with the first being an error related to directory services: 2009-04-15 19:58:23 PDT - T[0xB0081000] - Network transition occurred. 2009-04-15 19:59:15 PDT - T[0xB0081000] - Network transition occurred. 2009-04-15 19:59:17 PDT - T[0xB0081000] - Network transition occurred. 2009-04-15 19:59:17 PDT - T[0xB0081000] - Network…

Hi, I am baffled by this... I have two macs one MBP ( 3 years old ) Core2duo 2.33Ghz 2GB Ram and a MacPro Quad Core 2.8GHz 8 GB Ram. But for some reason the MBP beats the Xeon every time... Same OS, same FMversion.... Any ideas ?

FM 6 client software on an eMac running 10.4.11 as a server TCP/IP enabled. Each Mac set with a static IP can see eMac with a static IP through GO > Connect to Server; each Mac can ping eMac. No Mac can the the FileMaker files (open) via Remote, either Local or with IP address specified. Ideas?

i am new to networking. i have a full copy of 8.5 advanced and a full copy of 10 advanced. i was wondering if i can put my solution on one machine with, say v8.5, and access it from the other machine which has v10 (or vice versa) to test networking.

I have FM 9 Advanced, 1 copy. I have two users, 2nd user is currently using only IWP (because that's what I know how to do). Problem: user #2 needs to print and printing from the browser is insufficient. I do not need the data on a server; indeed, it's preferable at this time to keep the file stored on user #1's (my) computer. Question: what is the cheapest way to get user #2 to be able to print straight from FM? Both computers are Mac OS X, one Tiger one Leopard.

Hi, For once, the Windows guys win. They can use their arrow keys to tab between the buttons on dialogue boxes. Is there any way to do this in OSX in Filemaker. (e.g. Apple+D for "Dont Save" etc...) Any Ideas?

It seems that whenever I create an e-mail using Send Mail[] something happens to the message in Mail.app that prevents me from tabbing from the subject to the body. It's pretty minor, but I'm still wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

Hi, Remote: Mac OSX 10.4 client VPN on DSL. FMPro 8.5 Office: Netopia 4622 on T1 FMPro Advanced 8.5 I'm in the early stages of testing mobile VPN connections to FMPro Server hosted at the office. My solution uses the spearation model with all graphics and layouts stored locally on the client. I am seeing very slow performace. For example, a simple 'sort by last name' on 1000 records takes about 500 seconds, ie. only 2 records are sorted each second. I had expected to see faster performance. Am I being unrealistic or is there a technical reason for the slow speeds? Do things speed up on the client with higher cache settings? Is there any pe…

Hello, I'm having an issue with some users trying to access a file and the machine will hang. I can create a new account on the same machine and the file will open under the new account. Go to another users mac and the file opens. There are two files this is an issue with. The machines have had permissions fixed and disk warrior run on them, but that doesn't seem to help. The issue isn't limited to 10.4/10.5 or PPC/Intel. The issue has happened on any combination of machine type/OS. Has anyone else run across this issue, and and if so, were you able to resolve it? Thanks, John

I have a host programme (several databases) being accessed remotely at home. Both ends use ADSL 2+ and connected through routers but even so, it is incredibly slow to view at home and often drops out for no apparent reason (usually when not being used continually). Is there anything I can do other than reduce the file sizes (two of the databases are around 50-80Mb)? They are all relationally linked in multiple ways. Thanks Martins

Hi we are looking to update our ageing server (G4 Xserve) to a new one. I was hoping might get some recommendations for hardware. Proposed useage; 1) Backup asides, looking to run a two disk server with apps and system on one and data on other. 2) data disk will have a lot of office type software plus largish CAD file. We also use filemaker for numerous uses and may have 6 or 10 hosted at any time but none of them are what you might call massive on an enterprise scale but heavily utilise calculations and scripts and can reference large numbers of photos. I guess we can always add another disk later if the databases start to impact on the saving and loading o…

Looking for advice. We are in the final planning stages for launching our FM solution which has both an important IWP component and locally attached FM users. We are running FM Server 8 Advanced and are pleased with the IWP response to most challenges. I have two idle Windows Servers with plenty of memory of which I would dedicate one. I can submit for budget approval for a MAC server running OS X. Does anyone feel there is a benefit to one platform over the other? I am partial to MAC but need the justification for the budget approval.

i found an anoying issue with MacOS X 10.5 and FileMaker Pro 6.0v4: printing for instance an OCR-B invoice directly to the printer doesn't work. i have to do a pdf, then print that pdf. this is quite annoying... i tried with two instances of OCR-B. one of which was bought on the linotype. the other one was the "OCR-B New Abacus" font. Any hint on this one?

Hi everybody I know this has nothing to do with FM but I am a bit stuck and I need some help from the mac users. What I want is that on startup I get a link established to a shared folder on a windows server. I can do this manually but I do not know how to get it to happen automatically on startup. It already does this for another folder on the same machine but I cannot for the life of me work out how you do it. The mac help files are very frustrating!! Thanks in advance peeps Phil

I am in the transition period from PPC to Intel, and installation of Aperture. My main box is an Apple G5 DP running OSX 10.3.9 and I have the upgrade software to go to OS 10.4+ but have not yet installed it. I also have a recent Intel MacBook Pro running 10.4.9. Problem I'm experiencing is not unusual. If I run the current OS I cant run Aperture in the G5. If I upgrade the OS I suspect I will 'leave behind' some of the other software I rely on. My query is about one main piece of software I use - Filemaker Pro 5.5 which runs a database I created handling my analog image collection, client info, deliveries and invoices, accounts etc. It works cleanly and quickly…

I'm not sure where to put this question so I will start here. I have an Intel based IMAC running Tiger OSX. I bought the machine to evaluate some windows based software for my cabinetshop. I am planning to toggle between the two platforms with a software called Parallels. I still need to get windows installed to make this happen. I have been advised to install XP rather than Vista. When I go to Amazon to buy XP I am offered the Professional Version and the Home version. There is no discussion about differences between the two. Can anybody recommend what I should use for software to make this transition easy to understand and maintain? T…

I've built a solution that makes use of the Get( DesktopPath ) function. For all of the machines running the system except one, this works fine. This is happening on Macs across the board. For those machines under which this is working, the function returns something like this: /Aslan/Users/chuck/Desktop/ However, on one machine, and only on this one, it returns something like this: /chuck/Desktop/ Has anyone else experienced this kind of behavior? Can anyone offer an explanation as to its possible origin? One difference that it is not due to is that one runs under an Admin account and the other does not. I tested this under both types of acc…

I'm getting the same wheel when I start my computer then a message and a window that says "Where is Filemaker" I then need to locate FM9 in a list of applications each time I start my computer. I've tried to save the files as mentioned above (as compressed) them open in FM9 but it still does the same routine when I start my computer again. I'm thinking this may be cause because I purchased the FM9 Advances upgrade (coming from full install of FM 8.5 Advanced). This is really frustrating as it seems I need to quit FM 8.5, then find FM9 in the applications list (from the pop up) then I can get into FM9. I was thinking of uninstalling FM9, then trying to re …

I haven't upgraded to 10.4.10 yet. But for those of you who did, this may be welcome; supposed to fix the audio popping. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/297