Each time I launch FileMaker, my Mac starts to dial out via modem to my internet service provider. Each time, I click "CANCEL" and FileMaker continues to run just fine.

I'm using FM Pro 6 stand-alone (no other users, no server) on a Mac G3 under OS 9.2. (OS 9 only because of other legacy apps that lack OS X drivers.)

Question: What's making FileMaker keep trying to connect to the internet? Is this something in each file, or something in general preferences for FileMaker, or what?

Problem: How can I stop it from doing that?

Preferences, Application: set Network to none.

Howdy, Palo Alto! Your comptuer might also be set to auto-connect whenever an internet connection is needed. You should be able to turn that setting off somewhere, too. I've never seen that behavior w/FM before but I always turn off the auto-connect stuff so maybe that's why...

--ST

I have seen such behavior. The cause was that there was an Open File step in a startup script still pointed to a location remote either on the web or the in-house hard wire network AND the file had been moved either to the local machine or a different server. The fix was to edit the Open File step to point to the correct location of the file -- in this case in the local machine.