One of the other posts here notes a similar problem that I have encountered with FM 6.0 and 5.5 when running Mac OS 10.2. This problem did not occur under 10.15.

Unless the FM application is already running, FM files that are password-protected do not open when they are double-clicked. These files *do* open if they are not password-protected or if FM is already running. This bug persisted even when I did a complete reinstall of OS 10.2 -- wiped the hard drive clean, etc.

Can anyone else confirm this bug?

Thanks,

Rob

I can confirm that. if you start FMP 5.5 first then open the file, it's OK. Otherwise a password protected file double clicked stops after FMP starts and you need to do a cmd-O. 10.2 has some qirks still. I know my FMP6 CD does not show up on my desktop with 10.2. I haven't been able to install FMP6. It shows up with 10.1.5 but not 10.2.

I can confirm this too (I already posted it).

Not sure why it it wouldn't see you CD. Thats weird. Did you frest install 10.2 when you upgraded? I find that that helps, but is not needed.

I upgraded to 10.2 before trying to upgrade FMP6. After inserting the FMP6 CD, OS X crashed and had to restart. After that the cd would never show up on the desktop again, even with a new CD from Filemaker. I haven't tried reinstalling 10.2 yet.

Try the same CD in another computer.

I tried it on another computer running 10.1.5 and it's OK. I didn't want to load 10.2 on all the computers until I felt comfortable with it. FMP 5.5 running on 10.2 is pretty slow accessing Server 5.5 on OS9. i still prefer running FMP in Classic...it's faster and stable.

Tested this - here's the results.

1. To force the password dialog, hold 'ALT' at start.

If you just double click then:

2. If your file has a "no password" then it will open, with the privileges for the "no password" option

3. If your file does NOT have a "no password" then the file fails to open.

Thanks. Your suggestion is a useful work-around until this bug is corrected.

Rob