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I have a Microsoft Intellimouse and the vertical scroll wheel does not work in Filemaker Pro 6 OR recently installed Filemaker Pro 7? Is there a fix for this .... Mac OSX 10.3.9 G5 D2G Filemaker 6.0v4 Filemaker 7.0v1

Is there a way of synching a FM database with Entourage (part of Office 2004 on a Mac)? We have a central FM database that we'd like to sync with Entourage and ultimately our Treo 650 phones. Is it possible? Apologies if this is in the wrong topic, I took my best guess. Thanks, David

Hi, After moving to Tiger, I'm noticing 2 curious behavior I'd like someone to confirm. 1) The Get(WindowWidth) and Get(WindowHeight) is not working any longer, returning 0 for both every time. 2)The language is locked to what it was first and I cannot switch any more to another language Edited : All Get( ) related to windows aren't working except those capturing the size by content... Anyone seeing this too ?

I have multiple photo images that I use as icons and artwork that no longer have a transparent background after switching to Tiger. For example a small photo image of a printer (jpg) was previously displayed without a matte. Showing only the printer and the background was that of the layout being displayed. Now a white background matte is displayed filling in the entire field of the photo image. I'm using FM 7.0 v3. I've turned on and off the transparency selector in the fill panel. If I select a solid color other than white the photo field remain white as it should since it was imported with out a background. Is there a preference setting I'm missing? Is…

HI, does anybody know how or where I can find information on using the [set-Cookie] tag, Im having a real nightmare with it, any info on this subject would be deeplpy appreciatied. I think I've check every manual going and still i have no joy, thanks in advance

Anyone have any experience with FM 7 (Client or Server) under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger? (I know the official release date is this friday, but many people have received shipments already in the mail.)

After coming back from some holidays i cant access remote files over internet any longer. During the holiday I did upgrade to 10.3.9 Any ideas appreciated, Thanks

Hi all I am moving my business over from PC to Mac. I have FMpro 7 and have created an accounting system for my company on XP , I want to have this accounting system now run on Tiger OSX......will this work for me? Are there any known issues? Danke

OK so i've been wooshing around the net for months, looking for a solution, I'm developing an intranet and need to upload images to the filemaker server from a web page, can anyone tell me is this function totally impossible, or am I just not looking hard enough!! thanks me (newbe) al

Does FileMaker Server expose any shell commands for starting and quitting the *server (not just the config utility)? Can I start the server on system startup? If all else fails, what pid (or name) do I look for if I need to kill it? Thanks much, JR Bernal

I am running Mac OS X Server with FM Server 7 advanced. I am running FM pro on my client machines, which are Win XP. i have done everything by the book and I can connect from my Dell COmputer to the server and open the Database. BUt when I try to make any modications (layouts,screens, etc...) it says "THIS DATABASE IS NOT MODIFIABLE". On my computer I can modify everything with the same database. When I open if on the server it says I can't modify this database. I can even type in fields it is so bad. Please help - thanks!

I'm running fm5 server on MacosX.3.8 Server and am wondering how fmpro clients handle filesystem permissions. For example, when a fm script runs an import from a file on the server, what username is asking for that file? I've looked in netinfo and can't seem to find a user called "fmpro" (the way I would "mysql" or "www"). So how is the os determining access? Also, any tips for sure-fire imports/export from/to any location on the network using filemaker, I'm running into trouble with fmpro's ability to remember where it is importing from! Thanks, JR Bernal

I have a small Mac LAN that all use OS 9.2 The server was using FM Server5.0 and to make an OSX machine work, I upgraded to FM Server 5.5 I upgraded the OS to 10.3.8 and am now not able to open the file. I get a message that says "" Open_orders_showtime" is currently in use and could not be opened. The file is single user or the host could not be found on the network. " Does anyone have any ideas? I'm kinda at a loss as to why this message is coming up.

Hi All: I've got a client who has asked that I look into setting up a FileMaker Point of Sale system, with cash register(s) and perhaps even touch-screen (along the lines of a restaurant system.) While I'm out there searching for clues on the net, I wondered if anyone here has done such a system, or had any hints for me. I imagine the client will want to stick entirely within OSX. Thanks -Stanley

To my horror I realized that, on the Mac, the mouse scroll wheel is useless within FMP. On Windows it proved invaluable in quickly allowing to scroll between hundreds of records/fields/scripts etc. Any solution or hope in the horizon?

I use FMP6v4 on MacOS10.3.4 I imported xml from http request but FMP has surely crashed and quit by the second import. The 1st import is successful after starting FMP,But if it becomes the 2nd time, FMP will crash. The same thing occurs also in FMP7 trial version. But this problem was not generated in OS9. Is this problem nonavoidable? I am sorry that it is poor English. xml URL http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?t=webser...arch=0804738696 xslt <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" exclude-result-prefix…

First of all: I'm glad to have discovered this forum, wish you all a great 2005. Here's te question: I've been using Filemaker since Filemaker II and I'm used to upgrading each time there's a new version. No problem putting it on my dual 1,25 G4 I guess. But what about my iBook G3 500Mhz? That I use probably more than my G4 and I was not planning to throw out. I'm using Classic on that one, afraid that Panther (let alone Jaguar) would make it collapse... Now, if I move to 7, what's gonna happen? Will it be able to run

I have created a dbase on macintosh (X). One layout (amongst others) displays imported text from EXCeL/word. If this layout is switched (no problem at all on MAC) and the dbase is opend in windows (XP) the programme bombs out. Hence from this layout (quite important to me) no use can be made in windows at all. Any solution???

i want to restrict users in my network on sertain file rights on the hard disk (like read only or read and write only ) in windows its a pase of cake but on a mac i dont know were to look can anybody help me to gt started to find the security rights management

This is a post related to: thread I am hosting with Filemaker Pro 6 (not server) to 3 clients all using 10.3.3 and have been getting the 3259 disconnection from host error on all the clients. We recently upgraded to a dual g5 1.8ghz machine as our server and that's when the problems began, at first on 1 client, now on all three. Does anybody know about issues hosting on G5 machines? Could this be a problem with the G5's network card?

Problem: One layout on a FM6 system served by FM server on Win2000 to Win and Mac clients is misbehaving on OSX (latest Panther). Everything in the header and random bits of the body (text and fields) are invisible in browse mode (yet they ARE visible in layout and preview modes!). The invisible fields will appear (along with their data) if you click into them, and remain visible. This problem is not present on OS9 or win clients. I haven't seen any other layouts acting like this (out of hundreds, though I haven't tested them all). So If I duplicate the layout, I get the same problems. If I create a new layout and drop in elements from the problem layout (fields, text…

I am having some problems with the performance and stabilty of Filemaker server 7. It is in a medium sized buisness network enviornment and there are multiple users across a local network and vpn. I use remote desktop to manage and monitor the server. In the past few days I have had a high number of crashes (4 in 1 day) and numerous corrupted files. I have installed the upgrades, tried to optimize larger files, and saved compressed copies but the stability dosen't seem to have improved. I cant seem to pinpoint any circumstances that would cause the server to be so unstable. I was hoping to get some helpful hints or user experiences...

Hi, I am using FMP Pro 5.5 Unlimited on a Mac running OS 9.2. We are trying to send e-mail via FileMaker, using Eudora 5.1. The problem is that the mail we are creating with the "sendMail" command, stay in the outbox and are not sent automaticaly. Is it a known problem, can it be fixed by using another mailer like Outlook or something else? Thanks for your help. Brigitte

Symbol font worked fine in earlier FM versions but it will not work with 7. Old records with it seem intact as well. And it does work in other programs--Quark, Word. Any fixes? I'm on Mac 10.3

This is driving me insane! Any ideas?:

I am running a FileMaker 4.1 database on a Mac G3 with OS 9. I need to have someone in my office access the database from her Windows XP computer. Several years ago, I had purchased some software called PC/MacLAN that would allow a Win98 PC user to read a file on a Mac running OS 9. It worked beautifully, but I haven't tried to see whether it's still available (or if it will work on XP). Do I still need to purchase that software, or some other program like Dave? Or is the XP PC more likely to read the Mac files without it? (Please don't tell me to convert the Windows users to a Mac, the Mac user to a PC, or the Mac to OS X. I'm stuck with the current network con…

I have a customer running FM 6 internally. The application is FM v6 and the FM server is v5.5. I have setup a sample database using the FM 6 application as a proof of concept trial. I think I have correctly turned on sharing and even IWP - but of course I could be wrong. They are a construction company and have users in the field in trailers connecting via DSL or cable modems. They need to connect to the internal FM database remotely. I have looked at the "via browser" solution, which works in a fashion, but it will need a major rewrite to establish complete functionality. I would like them to connect directly using a local FM 6 application -> File -> Open -&gt…

I recently relocated my guitar shop, run exclusively on the FM db I built about 4 years ago. When we went to 2 Macs about a year ago, we hosted on one, and logged in wirelessly with the laptop using "Open Remote". I've also logged into a static IP computer using the same function. But my shop is now 10 miles from my house, and I'd like to log into the shop network from home using Open Remote, but that network is behind an Airport, and I just can't see any of the computers there, even knowing the IP. Any suggestions? J

I'm not terribly familiary with OSX yet, so my problems are likely attributable to ignorance, but here goes: I have a client with 3 Macs running OSX 10.3.x. and FM6. One machine has been acting as a Filemaker "Host", opening files at the beginning of the day, while other machines used open remote to access the files. No problem, except, of course, the machine was also a user workstation. Last night the client decided to rectify the problem by moving the databases to another machine, and have that machine act as host. Great idea - except now none of the other machines can see the files via "open remote". Move the files back to the original machine? That con…

Hi, I'm using Filemaker Pro 6 on Mac OSX (my iMac has OS10.3 and other iMac has OS10.2) - the FM db is viewed in Table format. I have a simple, flat database of a lab's orders that I update and copy (across the network) to the lab computer. Twice the lab's version has a problem with the date not changing as they scroll down through the records - stays at 8/26/04 instead of changing to 11/24/04, if they started scrolling at 8/26/04. The data is fine underneath and my copy of the database is fine. Last time I fixed it by re-creating a new database and imported the data from my excel spreadsheet. Is the database just getting corrupted occasionally or is …

I'm on mac g4 450 mhz with 512 MB SDRAM running 10.3.5 and filemaker pro 7.0v3 My DB chokes when saving form letter as a pdf to be attached to an email. How can i improve performance?

I am using a USB flash drive (Kingston DataTraveler 516kb) to transfer files between an OSX 10.2 (Panther) computer and one running OS9.2. I have two intermittant problems. 1) sometimes a file becomes corrupted (whether read directly off the flash drive or transferred to harddrive) and must be restored, and 2) sometimes when I try to open a file, I get "Filemaker cannot read this drive" - no matter what drive it's reading from. (and it will have no problem reading other files on the same drive) Sometimes recovering those files restores access, but usually not. Again, these problems are intermittant and I can't find a common source. Any suggestions?…

Each time I launch FileMaker, my Mac starts to dial out via modem to my internet service provider. Each time, I click "CANCEL" and FileMaker continues to run just fine. I'm using FM Pro 6 stand-alone (no other users, no server) on a Mac G3 under OS 9.2. (OS 9 only because of other legacy apps that lack OS X drivers.) Question: What's making FileMaker keep trying to connect to the internet? Is this something in each file, or something in general preferences for FileMaker, or what? Problem: How can I stop it from doing that?

Hi There I have 7 macs (3 x G4 and 4 x first blueberry iMacs) accessing a database (currently not using FM Server) and would like to consider using a wireless network (Airport?). The speeds I understand are 54mbs as opposed to 100mbs. As I have a tendency to design calculation-heavy databases I am concerned about slowness on the network. I would like to know if the database would run slower - and if there are methods (new hardware, software, etc) that would provide the same speed as a cable network. (on a side issue, anyone have any comment re the new Apple iMacs - the computer in the monitor ones?) Thanks!

Migrated several files from v6 to v7 on OS X and the buttons are all acting screwy. Most just turn solid black. Ran the v2 updater and no improvement. I've even tried creating new buttons and get the same thing. This is just unusable. I did open the downloaded Business Tracker and the buttons there work fine and new buttons I create in that file work fine. This must have something to do with conversion but I cannot figure it out. Has anyone else experienced this?