Crashing on MacBook Pro

[rsagall]

Every time I put my MacBook Pro to sleep FM 9 Advanced crashes. This has happened on two different MacBook Pros. One has 2 gigs of RAM, the other 4. Otherwise FM runs fine. It's an annoyance. Any ideas on why this is happening and how to prevent it.

[David Jondreau]

Are you accessing a database that is being hosted? When you say "crash" what do you mean?

[rsagall]

I do access a hosted database, but I also access databases on my computer. I sign off from the hosted database before I put the computer to sleep.

The application quits - that's what I mean.

Rich

[Lee Smith]

Are you uptodate with version 9 releases?

[rsagall]

Using 9.0v3

[David Jondreau]

The application quits - that's what I mean.

So Filemaker is running, your computer goes to sleep. When it wakes up, Filmaker is no longer running? That is very odd.

Usually there's a freeze or an error message or something.

[rsagall]

The message I see is the Apple message that the applications has quit, no other applications were affected, and there are three buttons at the bottom of the message - report, relaunch, or cancel.

I noticed this AM when I was about to close my laptop a different occurrence. I unmounted the two external hard drives, unplugged the AC adaptor, pulled out the plug for the external speakers, and pulled the Firewire cable (for unmounted hard drive) and the USB cord (external hard drive and scanner), and then pulled the cord for the external monitor.

I don't close the computer until the screen icons move from the external monitor to the laptop screen. While waiting FM quit with the same message as usual.

Rich

[rsagall]

I now have an external monitor at work - an Acer 22 inch. When I disconnect the MacBook Pro from it FM doesn't crash. So it seems to have something to do with my Optiquest monitor.

Rich

[Hare]

perhaps it is better to first put the computer to sleep and then disconnect the monitor.

[rsagall]

Tried it. Same results.

Rich

[KirkR]

I have a nearly identical setup - MBP 4gb, external monitor, unhook, go-to-sleep, go to another site, hook up and go.

However, unlike you, it works every time. I have never had FMPro 9v3 stop running.

The ONLY difference that I can ascertain, is I don't access a hosted database - everything is local. Don't know if that helps, but maybe something with the hosted DB is not clearing.

Can you try to run the problematic process WITHOUT a hosted DB, and see if the problem still exists??

[rsagall]

Good idea.

I quit FM, relaunched it, and opened a solution on my computer. Then I pulled the plug on the monitor and FM quit.

Rich

[KirkR]

Don't know - I just replicated your situation, and it worked fine - no crash. There has got to be something specific in what you have running on your machine.

BTW: I am at 10.5.3

Try starting the MBP, holding down the shift key (that will start without loading any of the extraneous garbage), then try the FM launch, pull the plug on the monitor, and see. This test would eliminate most possible software conflicts with extras that are possibly running, and interfering with the FM situation.

[rsagall]

I tried what you suggested and no crash.

Now I have to figure out which application is causing the problem.

Rich