Been using 5.5 with OSX & 512 on a titanium. Been incredibly successful for about a month then all of a sudden my favorite file claims to be damaged and suggests I use recover to open it.

I use recover which runs fine and save it on the desktop and but when I go to open it Filemaker unexpectedly quits everytime. I never get to even open the file...any ideas?

Chris

You might try opening it on a Mac running another OS. Otherwise, how is your backup situation?

-bd

I, too, am having this problem. FM Pro 5.5 on a G4 using OS-X 10.1.5. Ditto on my G3 using the same system and software.

I can open the file on my G3 Powerbook, which is running OS-9. No problem there.

I had to export the data from the OS-9 system, then import it into a backup file in OS-X.

This seems to be a serious problem, yet there is not mention of it on the FM website.

Yes, I recently was burned also, but it was on Win98/2k machines. It was suggested to me that there may be an error on one of the layouts. Do you get a type 2, 3 or 11 error (well, i guess you probably wouldnt get those on OS10) Backing up everyday is key

Ken

I've had this problem too. Running 9.2.2 and FMD 6.04. Yesterday the file was fine, today it's damaged and I recovered it. Now FMD quits with the type 2 error. An interesting thing I noticed about the memory. The more I assign to it, the more it seems to use (according to the About this Mac window). At 10 mb, it was using 9.9, so I set it to 50 mb and it now uses 48.8. What's with that?!

Well, at least I should have a good backup on one of my tapes.

Yup. I've had this happen a few times in the past year. Also had FM Server for OSX totally mess one to the point of being unrecoverable.