FM Server 5.5 OS X

[vr5150]

I tried using FM Server 5.5 on OS X a few months ago and had all my databases corrupted. Anyone else experience this?

Anyone out there using OS X and using FM Server 5.5 with no problems?

Any tricks?

[marcd]

I am having the same problem using the latest version of FM Pro Server and OS X.

FM Pro Server is hosting 74 files of these, 2 regularly have close errors when shutting down Server about once a week. Also, about once a week another random file doesn't close properly.

To get the files back up, I have to Recover - Save as Compressed Copy - Export data in Merge format - Save as Clone - then re import the exported data into the clone, all the time renaming and deleting files to preserve relationships.

When running OS 9, I don't have any of these problems. File Maker support hasn't been able to help.

Does anyone out there have an answer???

In the meantime I am going back to OS 9 even though it means giving up speed. OS X is about 2 to 3 times faster when running complicated FM Pro scripts.

[Anatoli]

FM Server is not running any scripts

For sure it will be faster in serving in MacX like it is on Windows NT technology.

[dkemme]

Are you running 5.5v2?

[dkemme]

Another thought, are you quitting FM Server by a script or by clicking on the stopping server button?

[marcd]

Am running 5.5v2

Have tried quitting using Remote Administration (most luck) and Stop Server button.

[dkemme]

I have experienced this problem with my larger databases when served on OS 9 and OS X when closed by triggering a script when I did my database maintenance. I had created a script that called an AppleScript that quit FMServer. Solution was to run maintenance on a different machine and not quit FMServer. But, this does not sound exactly like your problem.