Hi everyone and excuse me please if I seem ignorant of the inner workings of Filemaker.

I stuck together my database a couple of years ago when my brain was younger, fresher and it took me the best part of 2 months !!

We use it for writing invoices and creating quotations for my wife's business.

It has worked absolutely brilliantly and I think FM is a wonderful bit of software.

However I have just upgraded my wife's computer to Mac operating system OS10.7 (Lion) and suddenly a strange thing seems to be happening.

This only happens on her computer and not on mine running OS10.6.8.

When she uses one of the little drop down calendars to insert a date it begins fine but when the date appears on the page the year appears is in Japanese/Chinese Kanji characters.

(I have attached an image of the characters)

I have, of course, checked the language prefs etc in her computer and that all seems ok.

Anyone else had this problem or know of a solution ?

Check the file for corruption: first save a compressed copy. If still bad then recover the file. Make a backup first.

FMP 9 is was not certified for 10.6, and it's probably broken with 10.7. Download the trial version of FMP 11 (free) and see if it's better on the Lion machine.

See:

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9912

and:

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9710

The Upgrade to FMP / FMPA 11.0v4 addresses this issue

http://forums.filemaker.com/posts/bc3653a873

The Upgrade to FMP / FMPA 11.0v4 addresses this issue

Did you read the linked Articles that comment posted?

Did you read the linked Articles that comment posted?

Yes, the day they came out! ... I had this issue as well with 11.0v3.

Just thought that I would highlight the fact the upgrading to the latest version fixes the issue.

Crikey you guys have been busy while I've been away.

Will have to go through the responses and get back to you .

Thanks to everyone for the help.

OK guys that does seem to work !

Downloaded the trial version of Filemaker 11 onto my wife's computer (Running Mac OS10.7) and the funny little Kanji characters disappeared.

But, and it's a big BUT, it will cost me £155 GBP to upgrade from FM9 to FM11 !!

That's a lot of money to just fix some odd characters appearing on our invoices !?

Is there not a simple workaround ?

Oh by the way I did try to do the workaround listed in http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9912

but as we are working from FM 9 those options do not seem to be offered to me.

(Unless anyone knows differently)

The instructions for Filemaker 10 can be applied in Filemaker 9 too. Whether they will work is another question.

Thanks to Everyone - that indeed does seem to do the trick. (http://help.filemake...etail/a_id/9912)

My wife sends her thanks too :yep: