Colin Gilboy

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I purchased a new machine for FMS12 - 2 remote people could not access the file the other 4 could could. Installed FMS11 and plan to stay there. Seaver was on FMS10 working great. I want to make some changes to the database compact it - save as compacted - and cannot find the file anywhere on the server. I used the upload feature - file name was 4specs_db.fp7 and there was a 4specs_db2.fp7 in the normal database space. It is still there and not available to the server admin screen. The original 4specs_db.fp7 file is still where it was. 4specs_db.fp7 shows up in the server admin dabatase screen. I changed the comments field dark red to be sure which version I had - stopped server and moved both databases to my desktop - neither are red and both ad dates 4 days ago. Searched for fp7 in windows and the only file is the one I uploaded from. Where is the file? Is it buried in some other location or cached. I can save the data and recover an older clone that should be OK - other suggestions. Help. Colin

I also have a flicker on one computer running a wide screen monitor - 1680 x 1050 and live with it. It never seems to appear on a wide screen portable or on other computers. Flicker is only on FMP9 and not on other programs. Running FMS8.0 as the server about 10 feet away on a local 100k network.

Was thinking about purchasing a volume 10-pack of FMP 9s upgrade to standardize our network. We have only 7 clients active, and could go to 8. In researching I realized that FMP 9 will host 9 clients rather than the 5 clients last time I looked. I currently use Server 8 to host these 7. Are there any disadvantages to using a dedicated machine to run FMP 9 and host the 7 others as compared to Server 8. Is there something not obvious to me? Also, I cannot find any "rules" on using the 10-pack volume license for one user with both a desktop and portable - does this count as one or two? Specifics: 1. 5 clients on Win XP and 2 on Vista. Host would be on Win XP - all v2. 2. Server is 8. Currently a mixed environment of 7/8/9 clients plus FMP Advanced 8 used primarily to compress and optimize the file. 3. Only one database is live, about 20-22 meg before optimization and compression - 17 meg after. 4. Do not require IWP, PHP or any other database connections.

I run a 4 user system with FMS 8v3 on a Celeron 2.7 with 512 meg on memory and XP Home - on an eMachines computer to boot. Not within guidelines, but is stable and works well. No apparent problems after a year.

This is on windows - both systems are running xp. She is logging on using FM7 - nothing else. She has a user name and password.

I did a search and the problems did not seem to be the same. I use FM7 - one copy runs on a dedicated server with 3 users max - 2 computers access the database on a local network and one accesses the database remotely. I have 5 licenses and sometimes use one on a portable. My remote user has a satellite connection with a 1500 ms ping time, but that does not seem to be a problem. Sometimes when she tries to log on she gets: "The maximum number of licensed users are currently using this copy of FileMaker Pro. Please refer to the license key section of your software documentation for further instructions. License key conflict occurred with user hermachinename. All files will be closed and the application will quit." When I look at the FM7 copy running on the server, she is not logged in, yet gets this message. She reboots and sometimes gets in and sometimes not. She can also address this database by static ip or a computer name and gets different results - sometimes one works and not the other with no consistency. Any suggestions on troubleshooting this. Is there a log out time that is settable? There is no number need to go to a server, but she never had this problem when this was hosted on a remote server at forest.net. Would a server version work better? The database is about 25 megs and all in one file with 14,000 records or so.

I use FM7 in a peer to peer setup, with a dedicated machine as one of the peers. 2-3 users max plus the server. The file timestamp on the server is not updated during the day, even though the save every 10 minutes option is selected. Is the file actually saved or is the file just in memory. I realize that as long as the file size does not change, FM7 could just be replacing some file sectors. Advice please.