clynch117

Help, I have been trying for weeks to find the magic combinations of field and indexes that will allow me to connect to my filemaker 5 db from Access using odbc. Does anyone have any ideas. I have turned all indexing off (reduced my db size in half btw) but still cannot get it to work. Smaller (in terms of number of fields) databases work fine (albeit a little slow) Any help is appreciated. The odbc support in filemaker is mediocre at best. Thanks.

The answer at last. You have to do the typical install which will install the drivers. Then you have to go back and do a custom to install other features if you want. It would have been nice to include that in the documentation or on the website after it was discovered....Thanks to filemaker for wasting my time.

How do you access the "complete" install option with FM 5. It does not appear during the normal install process. Only typical, minimum, custom. I have seen it mentioned as the solution to ODBC install errors but no one has included instructions on how to do it? Thanks.

Hello, The FM 5 odbc drivers do not install on our workstations. We use WIN98 se. How can I get the odbc drivers to either install from the FM CD or is there a place where I can go to download and install them separately. Thanks.