A client has reported a strange problem. Some of their local machines have screen savers or go into sleep mode. When they wake up, the FileMaker screens they were on have changed and sometimes, there is no found set in whatever file is up front. Anyone heard of this, and if so, know a workaround? These are all Macs, by the way, some running OS X, some running OS 9 (FMP Server is on an XServe).

Thanks,

Gary

Gary:

There are all kinds of problems associated with sleep mode on the Mac interfering with network connections. A screen saver should be a different item altogether, but you never know. The best thing to do with a mac is to set the energy saver control panel to a different time for display sleep (which really just shuts the monitor off) and never let the system itself go to sleep.

-Stanley

Well, sleep can certainly cause problems, screen savers might in that when the user comes back to wake the machine up they hit space or enter or esc or whatever and this will still be passed through to Filemaker via the keyboard buffer. So who know what this might activate in the DB.

Thanks guys, I'll pass it along!

Cheers,

Gary

Screen savers also take up a lot of processor cycles. Check it out by using a system monitor. They can take up anywhere from 10 to 25% of the CPU time on a single processor box.

HTH

Wim