REM64

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Hi All, I have an end user who ordered Windows Vista Business which will have IE7. In our environment all our client installs have FM8.03. Will there be any issues with this version working with Windows Vista or IE7? Thanks in advance!

Vaughn, Thanks for the tip. As an FYI compressing the file did not work. It still takes about 5 minutes to open the file. I placed a call to Filemaker Tech Support and they suggested I try the following: (1) Try opening the file and doing a File==>Recover function to see if there is any internal problems with the file. (2) Indexing - Suggested to remove the indexing but i'm not sure if the end user will go for this. I don't think indexing is the problem because we have a backup file of this file that had 177 indexed records. This file opens quickly with no problems. The current file has 207 indexed records (not that much more). Thanks for all the help.

Vaughan, The Remote Administration was never setup. I'm not sure actually how to set this up? Anyway, I rebooted the server (this needed to be done anyway to run some Windows Updates), stopped the Filemaker Server service, opened the file in question and then saved a copy of the file as a compressed file, renamed the compressed file to the original name, restarted the Filemaker Server service. I will check tomorrow to see if this improves the response time. Thank you for your replies. Could you fill me in a little more on the FMS Remote Administration (I.E. What is it? Any gotchas to setting it up?) Thanks

Vaughan, Thanks for your tip. I will shutdown Filemaker Server first, then make a backup copy of this file, then open up Filmaker Pro and do the optimize/compact function Stanley noted in option 5 of his notes. Thanks all!

Stanley, I just opened the file in Filemaker Pro version 6.0 and I do not see a "File, Save A Copy As" function.I didn't shut down the Filemaker Server. I just wanted to verify I could do this function but I don't see that option in the File menu. Would this compact function be done another way? Bob

Stanley, Thanks so much for your suggestions. I will try options 3 - 5 from your instructions tomorrow and post back. Thanks a bunch, Bob (REM64)

Hi All, We have Filemaker Server 5.5 and clients that use Filemaker 6.0. There is a Filemaker file that is 430MEG. The end user claims nothing has changed for over a year and that they never had an issue until now. For the past month the end user tells me it takes them 5 minutes for this file to open. I confirmed this by trying to open the file on my laptop. Once the file is open everything is fine. I contacted Filemaker Tech Support but they don't support Filemaker Server 5.5 or Filemaker 6.0 so they were not helpful to me. Could anyone provide any suggestions I could try? Thanks so much, REM