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I have a small office network - three G'4 and one IBM - everything works great together with filemaker as long as I am working on 'remote computer' If the connection sits idle for just a short time the connection is cut off and we need to reopen remote file. Is there an adjustment to lengthen out the time beore connection is closed?

Folks I was working on a late model G4 server last night. It was in a server room connected to one of those monitor/keyboard switch boxes, with a PC keyboard connected to it. The G4 has no CD tray open button, there is a eject disk key on the keyboard. But it was a PC keyboard plugged in... Does anybody know if there is a keyboard shortcut (or something) to open the drive tray? We ended up having to shut the server down and temporarily pluging in a mac keyboard. But there's gotta be a bterre way.

I have 2 G4s with OS9.2.2 running FM6.0v4. One operates normally. The other runs FM with 40mb RAM instead of about 12Mb. Mouse scrolling and keyboard typing is painfully slow in FM but not in other applications. This happens even when I open just one of the small sample databases provided with FM. Closing FM takes an age. I have tried switching everything else off including networking but with no effect. Any suggestions anyone ?

Has anyone been using 10.3/Panther with FileMaker 5.5 Pro? I am interested in switching our office over from 10.2.6/Jaguar, but am hesitant because FileMaker doesn't seem to list version 5.5 as compatible at their website. Of course, they only mention their latest release - 6.0. Thanks Rome Hanks

I'm seriously considering purchasing an X Server and FM Unlimited to run multiple sites. Has anyone had any issues arise from this set-up?

I am running FileMaker Unlimited on OS X and serving web pages through it. Occasionaly it crashes and my clients can not access it. Is there some app out there in Mac Land that will give an audio alert when an application crashes.

I have a whole set of FMP files that I manage on a G4. From time to time I copy all these files onto my Powerbook in order to access them on the road. I can't figure out why but on the Powerbook FMP takes an inordinate amount of time to find the related files even though they are all classified in the same folder with the same name as on the G4. I get the impression that FMP looks everywhere else instead of in the folder to find the right file. Does anyone have any idea why there is this delay so I can work a way around it?

Anyone ever network Mac's and Pc's with FileMaker Pro, we are running an ethernet connection. Comments or direction are more than welcome.

Hello, and thanks for helping, I am new to networking Filemaker, and I have two MACS, that I want to Network using one SYSTEM that i have created. So far there will be two main sides of this database. Database/MAC TWO would access DATABase/MAC ONE only to bring up style numbers that the ONE database contains, and also for CONTACT info. So far, i think that if I make the system Multi-User it might work, but can the One computer be inputting contacts and also the two computer be bringing up these contacts. I just need to make only one MAIN CONTACTS file for multiple computers. Is this possible? Thank you for URGENT help!!! Ami

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of VNC server for Macintosh

can anyone help please? we run a small office with a few macs all on OS 10.2.6 which are networked together and share an epson stylus colour 740 printer. each mac will happily print from any application other than filemaker pro 6.0.v4. when printing from FMP nothing happens and print centre shows no job. any ideas?

Hi, I have set up a db as a multi user and is working fine across a local network. now I've caught a plane and am trying to access the file via my broadband, but i dont cant see the file in the "open remote" menu. (tried the ip option). Also I'm using the standard filemaker- not the server version I can access the remote computer through normal afp. Should this set up work or am I doing something obviously wrong. Mac OS 10.2.6 filemaker 5.5 there filemaker 6 here thanks

Since the update to OS 10.2.8 I am not able to open any FM file. I tried using FM6 and FM 5.5 on local and remote volumes. File is "opening" the FM Password box is showing up I can type the password... and then FM hangs up with a spinning beachball. Workaround so far disable TCP/IP networking in FM pref. and work only on local files. Anybody else with similar problems ??

Has anyone else had a problem with FM 5.5 and System 10.2.7? I have a networked solution that has been running fine and continues to run fine on 10.2.6. However I just got 3 new 17 inch 1.25GHz iMacs, that have 10.2.7 on them. When you launch FM 5.5 from the dock, select our "Opener" file, FM will quit when the opener opens other files. Happens EVER time when launched from the Dock. It will happen about 50% of the time if you launch the application from it's folder. This only happens on the 10.2.7 machines....

a client has installed version 5.5 on a Mac ( OSX) and when try to open a file immediately gets and error 1000. its not one of the error codes listed in the filemaker help Any ideas thanks

I have a db solution that is exporting PDF files to the local hard drive and in the script step it will also send the pdf file to a customer. I done this in Windows using Affiler 2 and it work just fine, but Affiler 2 dose not work in Mac. In Mac you can print to PDF directly but since I

I went to the store today to buy the newest version of Filemaker because: a) I want to keep my new Mac running in native OS X applications instead of in Classic mode : because I can't print to PDF or my fax machine from Filemaker (as far as I can figure anyway) when in 'Classic' mode c) because all of a sudden I cannot open Filemaker files in v 5.0 even in Classic mode if I wanted to! Initially, I had no troubles opening files when I first installed Filemaker 5 as long as I wasn't printing anything. Now when I double click on a file I get Classic opened, Filemaker opened and the icon jumping up and down for a few seconds and then nothing. I have tried to open Fi…

Has anyone been successful on this? Am developing a Point of Sale system in FileMaker for OS X and have been unsuccessful using Gimp Print on an Epson LX-300. Any other way I could make this work, short of moving the POS to a Windows platform? Thanks in advance!

I am working with 3 eMacs (OS 9) that are on a larger network. I want them to share a FM file. OS 9 file sharing is NOT turned on. All 3 eMacs are running FM Pro6 w/ TCP/IP under the same subnet mask. The database file is on eMac #1 set to multi-user. eMacs #2 & #3 do not see the file when I try to OPEN REMOTE. I have tried to look under LOCAL HOST and by eMac #1's IP address. The network "liaison"- I was told to go to this person if I needed help- told me there is a firewall "to the outside". He has been unreliable in his information in the past, so I don't know exactly what he means by this. He also said he isn't sure if there is a router in the system. I was c…

I just discovered that the Status(CurrentPrinterName) function isn't supported in Mac OS X -- instead of the printer info it just inserts the string <unknown>. *******. Just passing the info onto others.

Hi All, Is there a way to change a list separator in mac?? On a PC it's part of the regional settings, but where does it "live" on a mac ?? FYI I built an app on a pc and some script steps don't run under mac. I think it's because of the french OS X using semi-colon instead of the comma to separate paramaters in some scripts in my computer. Thanks --Dan

All, Has anyone had any success with this? I've got a contacts DB that I want to sync with my Sony Ericsson T68i. I know I can sync the phone with the OSX address book through Apple's iSync but what about FM? Any ideas? Thanks C

Hi, I have been having the same problems as what pkudrle posted, but when I open the file using open remote it works fine, but any linked files won't. How do I make all of my linked files work, or is the computer setup wrong.

I have a PowerBook G4 with OS X.2.6. I have FM5, and I'm sitting here with an FMPro6 Upgrade still in shrinkwrap, because I wanted to check out some things first. - The box says 10.1 is required in OS X. Does FM run in Classic mode, or is it for-real OS X? I figured they'd spell it out, but I find it safer to check first. - I am not thrilled about having to install FM5 just so FM6 can find the files it needs to verify the upgrade. Is there a way around that? For instance, does anyone know if the process might let me slip in my FM5 CD? Maybe just drag-copy something from FM5 CD? Thanks.

Does anybody have experience accessing files via VPN in 10.2.3? The files are served on a G4 running OS9.2 which is part of a network of computers connecting to the Internet via a router and ADSL, we have no problems getting to the files from a PC using ADSL and VPN. However, we are now adding G4s running 10.2.3 and while I can establish a connection via VPN, the files do not show up in the Host list of Filemaker. Any suggestions very much appreciated. Gabriela

I love rumors as much as the next guy, but this one hits kinda close to home. Ran accross this tidbit this morning that FileMaker was being moved back in-house at Apple. http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=115 Seems kind of far-fetched, but with all the buzz about changes @ Apple and what the WWDC will bring @ the end of this month I wondered if anyone else has heard anything recently about this? Seems to me there was a "Microsoft is buying FileMaker!" scare not so long ago. Not that this would be a bad thing, and I definately don't want to fan any fires, just thought it would make for interesting DevCon conversation this year at Pheonix. thanks

Hey, you should all go over to the apple.com website and check out the new G5. I never thought they would get it off the ground, but now that they've dropped Motorola, it appears Apple has made the fastest desktop PC. Ken

Currently we use FM Pro for managing and billing a special needs handicapped transportation company. By October of this year I need to start submitting claims in Hippa Compliant X12 format for batch submissions (multiple claims). Does anybody now any reference points to finding supplemental software, or otherwise, to convert my billing info so that it is in compliance? Any and all help will be appreciated!

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I am wondering if anyone has experienced problems having a Windows based machine, or a Mac with OS 9 host a file, and then try to open that hosted file as a guest in an OS X environment. I am getting multi-user issue, stating that the file is a single user. I have rechecked, the multiuser connections, the TCP/IP, and everything is correct. So why can't the OS X get into the file as a guest? thanks for any help, paul

I am trying to get Excel to access data in an FM database via ODBC. Both the applications are on the same machine, no network, no server. In OS9 this was possible & easy using Intersolve ODBC drivers supplied by FM. In OSX it seems less straightforward. The DataDirect text driver supplied in the FM6 installation has no info as to how it should be configured,and using this alone (with its corresponding configuration app) Excel does not recognise that ODBC is even installed..... Howerer, using Openlink's dirvers (and configuration app) I can get Excel to recognise ODBC, open Query and request a DSN. Problem is how to configure the driver, be it either a generic on…

I'm curious about whether any of you can give me any feedback on how fast Filemaker performs on OSX compared to OS9. I have OSX 10.0.4 which was shipped with my G4. I have never upgraded to a newer version because I still mainly run OS9. When I run FM 5.5 on OSX it seems to run about 4 times slower than it does on OS9.2. This applies to all operations: finds, big replace operations, scripts etc. This really worries me. Are the newer versions of OSX faster? I hope so. I can't imagine having to eventually migrate to a new OS that performs so badly compared to the old one. Is FM6 faster than FM5.5?

Hardware: Imac G4 700, G3 350, IBook SE DV Software: OSX 10.2.4, FMPro 5.5 (also tried FMPro 6 Trial version) Soooo... we have little network set up, the Imac being the host computer and the others connecting to it as clients. Aside from speed issues this has always worked like a charm. We have been using a local Cable service thorugh which we also connect to the host DB via TCP/IP. Just yesterday we switched to a faster xDSL line, got a new modem, hooked it up to the router, and here's where the strange behaviour started: The host DB on the IMac takes much much longer to start up, something like 5-10 minutes or so (previously: about 20secs). If we host…

I noticed that when I double-click a FileMaker v5.5 database that resides on the Desktop of my OS X client computer, it launches FM but doesn't open the database. If I place an alias of a database on the Desktop and move the database to a nested folder, works fine. Anyone else notice this Desktop No Launch issue?

OSX 10.2.4; FMPro 6.04; I've installed it 2wice. I've run a Disk Utilities, Repair, repair Permissions, fsck, etc. Yet when I open a FMPro shared database being server from a FMPro server it open fine. I do a search for a particular record; it finds it fine. But if I select "Print" it begins the script, starts to change layouts and crashes ("Unexpectedly quit"). I've repeated this as root as well as another user. It is not able to be replicated on other stations. Is this a FMPro issue or a Mac issue? Sounds like FMPro to me?? Thanks in advance for your assistance.