Newbies Darknight Posted December 20, 2001 Newbies Share Posted December 20, 2001 Hi, I'm using FMP5.5 on OSX 10.1.1 and have a problem where Filemaker will die when opening a file and give a EXC_BAD_ACCESS and KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS error. Certain files will open without a problem, but others just kill the app before it opens them. I fired up 5.5 on my Windows machine (didn't want to have to go back...) and all files open without a hitch, so I imagine the error doesn't lie in a bad relationship or erroneous calc field. I had a similar error when I tried to Print Preview from an open file and FMP didn't like my OSX HP printer drivers. It would die every time I tried to preview, but worked fine when I uninstalled the hp software. Any ideas/suggestions/words of pity would be greatly appreciated. Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWeaver Posted December 20, 2001 Share Posted December 20, 2001 You may not like this answer, but do you really need to run under OSX? I hate to be a stick in the mud, but if you are setting up a database that needs to be reliable I suggest staying with an operating system that's been around for at least a year. I loaded up OSX a couple of months ago. It was cute. It was pretty. It wasn't quite ready for prime time. So, I dumped it. Let the nerds that need to have the bleeding edge software go through the misery of debugging it. Give it about a year. Then we'll all be using it and most of the bugs will be gone. My rule of thumb: New OS? Wait one year! (It worked with System 7) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted December 20, 2001 Share Posted December 20, 2001 Bob is absolutely right! As many of you know I am quite skilled with Macs and Windows. I wouldn't dare to use MacX or WindowsXP for anything else, but testing. I am using Windows 2000 with sp2 for about 2 months, but only on workstations. W2000 server is still not good for us. So everything is on NT4 sp6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWeaver Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 For help on OSX you should check out MacFixit.com. They have numerous forums going on right now on the various aspects of OSX and all the problems that people are having with it. Good luck. FWIW, I think OSX eventually will be an excellent OS even though its user interface looks depressingly like MS Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies Darknight Posted December 21, 2001 Author Newbies Share Posted December 21, 2001 Thanks for your replies guys, I installed FMPro in OS9 and the exact same files that die on OSX open without a hitch...even when running in Classic. Makes no sense to me, but at least its nothing mission critical. Cheers Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted December 22, 2001 Share Posted December 22, 2001 quote: Originally posted by BobWeaver: FWIW, I think OSX eventually will be an excellent OS even though its user interface looks depressingly like MS Windows. It should be good. Next OS was great. It is Unix. But I am not so sure about overall success, because of all competition from Solaris, Linux and others. If I need complexity, I can get cheap HW with Linux. If I need some GUI I can get cheap HW and W2K. What is the point to have keyboard 10 times more expensive? Motherboard 10-20 times? It is just a rant. But I am not gonna start again with Unix all over again after 20 years of computing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshafer Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 quote: Originally posted by BobWeaver: Let the nerds that need to have the bleeding edge software go through the misery of debugging it. While I don't take issue with the underlying advice of waiting a while (a year was what was suggested) before adopting a new OS, it was unfair of you, Bob, to suggest that only "nerds who need to have the bleeding edge software" should move to OS X at this point. OS 9 is unstable in too many situations. I'm a power user but I don't think I'm an OS nerd. I just got really tired of rebooting OS 9 every time Word crapped out trying to print or Eudora hung up trying to get mail. I moved to OS X about 10 days ago now and I spend all day in it. I still have to use OS 9 occasionally (e.g., for FileMaker Pro, where there are still too many reports of bugs) but I would never go back. To see why, read my Weblog (http://radio.weblogs.com/0001285/) articles. It may not be for everyone, but it's moved well beyond the nerds-only stage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arin Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 We've been running our mission critical DB server and a client machine on OS X for several months now, and I'm pleased to say that other than the 5.5 Server back-up scheduling problem (solved with a cron scheduled script - see post in Server area), everything else has been working wonderfully, and it's FAR more stable than OS 9 ever was. I've only had one crash that required "recovery" and a restoration from backup files in the past 4 months on OS X, and that was due to trying to remotley mount all 25 databases from a slow internet connection on an OS 9 machine that crashed. FMP on OS X may not be 100% yet, but form my experience it's far more stable than OS 9 ever was (especially for Web Apps) even with Rambunctious and Peek-a-boo. -Arin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Claridge Posted February 22, 2002 Share Posted February 22, 2002 I strongly recommend OS X for FMP. We are moving FM from a Win2k box because OS X seems to be more reliable. I'm talking about FMP 5.5v2 on OS X 10.1.3 Garry [ February 21, 2002, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: Garry Claridge ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies danhopper Posted May 31, 2002 Newbies Share Posted May 31, 2002 I am having this same problem on OSX 1.4. The OS is more than a year old now and the problem persists. Looks like FMP 5.5 simply isn't yet ready for this OS... It appears that the program may not properly closes it's databases all the time. There are no posts on MacFixit about this problem. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 RE: I strongly recommend OS X for FMP. We are moving FM from a Win2k box because OS X seems to be more reliable. I'm talking about FMP 5.5v2 on OS X 10.1.3 IMHO - first mistake was the move to W2K. That system is great for workstation, but we are still with NT4 on all servers. Confirmed by two independent experts -- W2K server -- no way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob White Posted June 3, 2002 Share Posted June 3, 2002 Have you updated your 5.5 to the v.2 update yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies danhopper Posted June 4, 2002 Newbies Share Posted June 4, 2002 Yes, I'm using 5.5v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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