Hi folks,

If there is somebody here with experience under both Windows and Mac this would be great. I wrote a rather complexe appliction (32 tables, about 60 relations) that works fine under Windows (Pentium 4, 256 MB).

Under OS X (iMac G4) it takes a horrible long time to display a new record, with all data shown in the portals and two windows that are actualized by script.

I really do not understand the reason for that problem, because the G4 should definitely not be slower than my old Pentium - and FileMaker was designed for Macintosh in the beginning, wasn't it?

If anybody has any sort of idea if there could be a solution for my problem, that would be absolutely great!

Best regards,

Bernhard

Lots of things could be a culprit.

What's the configuration of the iMac?

Is this a hosted solution or stand-alone?

Is this a converted solution (from a previous version) or did you build it completely in FM7?

Have you upgraded FM7 to 7v3?

Is it only slow on one particular layout or any layout for that table?

Are any of your fields in that slow table defined with "Unique" validation?

Have you tested your solution on more than one Mac? Perhaps the problem was with the particular computer/setup that you tested it on?

-Stanley

you can create a new user account on your Mac OSX that could test to see if the configuration is the problem. Login on this new account and try it.

Usual advice on slow macs is to fix permissions.

testing the application on a new user account doesn't do any good to the performance. could you be so kind to point in greater detail what you do mean by "fixing the permissions"?

sadly, i do not have much mac-osx-experience...

thx a lot!

bernhard