Data not showing up in any FM file

March 14, 200421 yr

Newbies

I cannot see most of the data in any of my files. I am suspecting a fonts issue. (I recently have been cleaning out fonts from my System folder).

When I create a new file, the data does not show up in the fields unless I format the data in a field with a different font. Not all fonts cause the data to appear.

Does FM require a certain font to be installed?

Thanks for a response.

Version: v3.x

Platform: Mac OS 9

March 15, 200421 yr

Hi, tenake! I don't have access to a MacOS 9 system right now, but I wouldn't think a missing font would do that. If I remember correctly, when I gave someone a db and they did not have a font I used, it would substitute Arial, Courier, or some other font.

In FMP4, there's a FileMaker Pro font menu preference or something that you can throw away from your System Folder > Preferences > Claris folder, though. You're using FMP3, right? Try deleting that and see if it helps (quit FMP before deleting it).

--ST