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On transferring my Windows-built solution to client's OSX G4, several layout problems occur: 1) Cursor is impossible to place precisely; eg if I try to correct the word "contaact" by placing the cursor after the second "a" and deleting it, I may well delete the letter "c" or some other letter. 2) Aligned text in fields looks terrible in layout mode (ie not aligned as formatted), not much better in print preview mode, but OK on paper. So I have to print everything to test alignment! Steve

I have a database running in FM6 on a windows XP machine. Other windows machines open this app well. When I try to open it on a Mac (Jaquar w/FM6)the mac says it's about to host the file, then that the file was not closed properly, then that the file is read only, then things really get unproductive. I thought this was supposed to be a cross platform deal, so any idea's what I'm doing wrong?

I am running FM7 over a network in the office on OS 10.3.4. What do I need in order to access the host file from home? I need to be able to edit records as well as design layouts. Have been reading about VPN and VNC but really have no clue what those are and how they work. Any help would be appreciated.

When I go to use the print command again after sending a fax using Panther's fax function it says there is no printer selected, and I must again select my printer. What is really weird is if I Cancel out of the print dialog box and go to print again, my printer selection is back! What's up with that?? Peleka

Is there any advice out there that can give me some direction about using FileMaker 6 with the Mac OS 9.x environment and GoLive 6? I work for a newspaper which would like to create a database for multiple newspapers to archive past editorial copy in Word. Any advice on how FileMaker would perform for this task? The Web sites are hosted on a Windows 2000 server at CrystalTech.com

I am in desparate trouble. I have a nine file data base that tracks donations and participant activities for a non-prof that helps cancer patients. It has been running on FMP 5.5. This data base runs on their Windows machines, while I have been updating it at home on my Mac (OS 10.3.3, G4 Dual, 1.5GB RAM). This has has worked fine until today. One file generates donation acknowledgement letters. Today, when I opened it and entered this eek's donations, The formatting on on all of my letters had changed as follows: Dates that used to display as May 22, 2004 now show up as 5/22/2004 Gift amounts that used to display as $500.00 now show up as 500 ZIP codes…

Hi all, Just ran the Software update to get OSX10.3.4. Now Classic is slow as hell, which make FM5.5 difficult to work with, either in Layout mode or Browse Mode. Anyone experiencing this behaviour ?

FM 6.0v4, 10.3.3. On occasion I'll see glitches in the UI in FileMaker. The rest of my apps run normally. In Define Fields, when I duplicate a field, modify the name, and click Save, the Options button will sometimes remain inactive (dim). Double-clicking the field opens it. Today I was doing script copying & modifying, with a lot of changing the field in Set Fields. One time after I clicked OK in the fields list dialog, it redrew with content from the layout before it closed... I immediately quit FM, backed up, recovered the data to be sure, all was OK. I've deleted all my FileMaker prefs just to make sure, but the glitches still appear. …

Two machines running os9. One is hosting 3 databases, the other is accessing these dbs. They were created on the second machine. In the creation process this never happened, but now when I open the dbs remotely one will open ("viewing as guest"), the relationships in it cause another to open (still fine), it happens again (still fine), and then when you click on either of the first two they open dbs 2 and 3 again. So what I have is multiple copies (usually it stops at two), of the same db open. Problematic. Any ideas on why this is? Also on the same topic, why do they stop at two?

Hello everyone. This is my first post/thread. I actually signed up at FileMaker Dev Con last year. I'm beginning to get into FileMaker a little more, and hope to do more development work. I've reached a few conclusions: 1) I am beginning to need a laptop 2) I could do with a Mac as I want to develop more FM solutions for clients. Currently have no Mac machines, so I can't test solutions intended for the Mac environment. Makes sence to get a Mac laptop I think. I am planning to go solely for FM 7, since I have no major projects on the go and no major FM 6 solutions to support. AFAIK FM 7 does not run on OS 9, so I'm looking at OS X only, am I rig…

I work on a website that links to a Mac at my office for 2 FM databases. Yesterday that Mac broke down. We removed the hard drive and made it an external drive on a new Mac. We attempted to re-establish the connection between the website and the FM files by renaming the new Mac's IP address with the one from the old Mac--so that the link from the website: http://206.20...etc, theoretically would still work. All our TCP/IP settings, and preferences in Filemaker appear to be correct, yet we cannot fix this thing. When we turn on web sharing we can see the directory of files in the web browser, so we definitely are reaching the new Mac over the web, but we just can't…

Hi! I have FMP Unlimited 6.0v4 running Web Companion 6.0v3 on a Mac XServe 2x1.33 with 2GB RAM/4x180GB drives (with OSX Server 10.3.3). There are eight databases running off an iMac (512MB/20GB) with FMP Server 5.5v4. The two major databases have 400,000 and 135,000 records each and have three related fields. I'm running FMP Connector with Apache on the XServe so most of the web load has been taken off of the Web Companion. The problem is that I get (seemingly) random "beach ball of death" on FMP Unlimited. The database system works fine for hours but then hangs and I have to kill FMP Unlimited and then relaunch it. None of the system or application logs i…

Anything to Dial Phone in Mac Os X? It wasn't possible in FMP 6. Now, It's still impossible in FMP 7 Nobody made up something? Unbelievable !! FileMaker Version: 6 Platform: Mac OS X Panther

Hello all, I wasn't very skillful in doing my search to see if this has already been addressed, so my apologies if I'm repeating old information. I'm currently running FM 5.5v2 on OS9 and I'm looking at upgrading to Panther pretty soon. I've been told that my current version of FM won't function on the new OS, but I haven't been able to find any independent confirmation of that. Before I go to the expense of upgrading, can anyone tell me if they've successfully run 5.5 on Panther? Thanks so much! Tiger

I run FMP 5.5 on a TiBook with Panther 10.3.3 and I use a Microsoft optical two-button mouse with wheel. Unfortunately, all the usability of the wheel is thrown to the winds in my case: it just doesn't do anything. In XP I can scroll through records, in card or list view, scroll to the bottom or top of very long scripts, or the Define Fields table. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

I was wondering if anyone else has run across this. I am hosting FM 5.5 unlimited on a OSX 10.1.2 machine. Every few days, for no apparent reason and with no warning or error messages, FM on the machine in question will just quite. LR

I am currently hosting a FMP 6.04 database system on a G4 933Mhz in OS 9.2.2 (Hardware RAID), which serves a maximum of 3 mac clients. I am also hosting the image server on this machine so file sharing is on and performance is slow. I have read the FMP Server Best Practices pdf and understand that image serving and database serving are best done on separate machines. Now I have the opportunity to upgrade the hardware and I am thinking about migrating to a G5 machine running panther with a firewire 800 RAID storing the databases (and/or images). What I would like to know is if I split the database serving and image serving between a G5 box running panther and the same…

I cannot see most of the data in any of my files. I am suspecting a fonts issue. (I recently have been cleaning out fonts from my System folder). When I create a new file, the data does not show up in the fields unless I format the data in a field with a different font. Not all fonts cause the data to appear. Does FM require a certain font to be installed? Thanks for a response. Version: v3.x Platform: Mac OS 9

I created a file at home over the weekend on my new Windows XP machine. I emailed it to work and now at work my Mac OS 9.1 machine won't recognize or open the file. Both are using FM 6.0 Client. I am faced with recreating about 5 hours worth of work. Anybody have any ideas why this is happening and if I can solve the glitch?

Our server is a G5 with OSX and FM6. We have recently been experiencing issues with FM files sporadically not being accessible or viewable from the client workstations. The files are intact on the server. After recovering the files, they begin to act normally again from the client workstations. Any idea what is causing this problem? Thanks for any help you can offer.

I am on a Powerbook with OSX and FM6. We recently upgraded all computers in our office to OSX and FM6. I am remotely connected to our files on our Xserver at our office. I have been able to work on all aspects of the files remotely with no problem. I attempted to create a script by performing all the functions and creating the intended report. When I go to Scriptmaker to name and save the script, the function window is blank and there are no steps listed to be saved. What am I doing wrong? All scripts created before we upgraded are working properly. It's just any new script that I've attempted to save is coming up blank, Thanks for any help you can offer.

Why, when I open from the guest computer, do I get open windows from both guest and host? Here is the setup: The host machine has an "open all" script attatched to the first file, so the rest open automatically. This was created in single user mode on the host machine, host file. All the files were then set to multi -user mode. On the guest machine I navigate to the host and open the first file. In my open windows list on the guest machine I then get some duplicates, like (lineitems.FP5) and (lineitems.fp5) - the same with a couple of other files. I think the capitalized .FP5 comes from the guest machine's hard drive, although I have only opened files from the host. There…

I'm running FileMaker Developer 6.0v4 on Mac OS X (10.3.2). I usually run the same version of FM in Mac OS 9.2.2. The most glaring problem in the OS X version is the absence of the toolbars. Personally, I dislike MS-style toolbars (just give me a hotkey or some Adobe style palettes). But, FileMaker appears to have relied on them, and then pulled their support in Mac OS X. It makes database design pretty difficult sometimes. The other annoying issue is that sometimes when I click on a button (actually a field assigned a script), the cursor "sticks" to the field, as if I simply held the button down. It's like it's forever stuck in a MouseDown state. If I cli…

can you lock or restrict access to any of the pull down menus? for instance I want users to create a new file by running a script and not use the main filemaker menu

I am new to Networking and to Macs. I have FM5 on a win XP machine, and a brand new Mac OS X with FM6 on that one. I have networked them together successfully, but can't figure out from the book if you can switch which computer is the host and which is the guest, depending on which setup is more convenient on any given day. The help says the one you open first is the host. So do the files automatically get stored on that machine that opened FM first? Is the only problem with this remembering which computer is holding the changed files?

I am having a serious problem with FMP on my Mac computers. We are set up with one computer as a host, and the other two computers access the program as guest through the host's desktop. When we had 5.5, it worked fine, but now that we have 6, we are having problems. I keep getting the error message "Communication with the host was interrupted and could not be re-established (-3259)" whenever I try to either create a new shipping document or I do a search, but sometimes I cannot even open these files. Does anybody have an idea what's going on?

Does anyone have any experience/comments on storing FM files in hidden folders (using Norton Disk Doctor to change the attribute to invisible) on OSX. I have played with some test files and it seems easy enough to open these files by script. I thought it may be useful for some "low-sensitivity" files - more really to perhaps prevent files from being being shifted or deleted accidentally. I look forward to your comments. Cheers, Murray

I now have my application running on the MAC and created a runtime under OS-X. Just discovered that it will not run in OS-9. Although I was able to startup "Classic" on my eMAC, I still can't figure out how to create the runtime in OS-9?? Also, the runtime application on the PC is 9.4MB. The same application on the MAC is 21.5MB. The executable file alone is 9.6MB! Am I doing something wrong? I'm sure I'll have more questions as the MAC-saga continues! Thank you.

Has anyone used Filemaker Pro 6 on a XServe running OSX Server 10.2.8 or later to host an internal database? I know Filemaker Server has problems on OS X Server, so I reckon using Multiuser on FMP6 would offer me enough speed etc to cope as I only have 2 users. But before I move the database to the XServe I want to make sure there no known problems... Thanks Frank

We have several relational databases hosted on an OS 9.1 machine using FM Pro5. These databases are accessed over a network by five macs. The whole system worked great for about a month, then we started to experience frequent type1 and type2 crashes on the host machine. The crashes seem to occur most frequently, but not exclusively, when focussing a hidden related database as a new primary (interface). Fonts are a likely culprit, but the host machine has only OS fonts installed, and ATM found that two of these were damaged. After removing them, the crash problem persists. We have reinstalled the OS, and Filemaker. No help. The database files seem …

Brand new to Macs - I miss very basic knowledge. If I create a media field, then right-click (pardon, control-click) on that field, I can insert a sound. If I click that, a program opens. What program is that? Can I find it in the Applications somewhere? (This is Panther, by the way). Thanks

Does anyone know of a method (AppleScript, standalone app, or otherwise) for taking raw "forms" data which has been received via email (using OSX's Mail.app) from a web site (e.g., name and address data), and converting it to tab-delimited text -- so that it can be imported into a FileMaker database?

Im running FM Pro v6.04 on Mac OS X 10.3.2 and FM hangs when: I have one Invoice file in which have a Value List for different Currencys "

I have been hosting our FM solution on a iMac 700mhz G3 for about a year. This machine is dedicated to this sole purchase. It is running OSX 10.2.8. Originally it was running Unlimited with about 12 relational files. Served up to about 5 local users on our office network as well as serving pages via web companion to the internet. I had the occasional crash. Usually it would be Filemaker that would quit. I would just have to relaunch it. Over the past 2 months I added 5 new relational files to expand on the web files being served up. All of a sudden the computer is crashing almost daily. Not just Filemaker crashing, but the whole computer is locking up. It does not s…

We have a small network with filemaker in our office. Many times the computer is left on a record that needs to be used by others. So their computer will say the record can not be modified because the same record is open on another computer. Can this safety feature be turned off or gotten around in some way?