I contacted filemaker here in Australia when one of my clients purchased
a new iMac and it wouldn't run his solution using 8.5v2. It wouldn't
even open the solution. Filemaker advised that some Macs will and some
won't and they don't know why but as they're not supporting 8.5 any more
then there will be no interest in finding out why.
On 12/12/10 2:14 PM, Beatrice Beaubien wrote:
Hello Lee,
As far as OS, my development computer is a June 2010 MacBook Pro with Mac OS
10.6.3 and I support a wide range of FileMaker versions: 6, 8.5v2, 9, 10 and
11. I hit servers running everything from FMS 8.0v4 upwards on all these client
versions. I haven't had a problem.
Please articulate if you have had a system issue with Mac OS 10.6 and FMP
8.5v2, and if so, which Mac OS X version and what type of problem.
Best wishes,
Beatrice Beaubien, PhD
i2eye, Toronto, Canada
FileMaker Business Alliance
FileMaker 11 Certified Developer
On Dec 11, 2010, at 18:51, Lee wrote:
Hi,
Just a statement of annoyance.
I'm presuming this is a no go. We tried it but it didn't work so we've stuck
with OS 10.5.8. Unfortunately it affects imovie as you can't update to ilife 11
unless you're running 10.6.3 and probably other things too.
I don't like the changes in layouts and screen views on FM 10 and 11, so its
the age old question about updating the OS and the working software. It never
ends. I have no idea if 8.5 or 9 could have been able to work on 10.6 but money
being the prime mover with filemaker its obvious they want you to keep spending
money with them.
However, on this occasion Windows 7 is still running FM 8.5v2 thankfully, so
the mac will miss out on further work for the time being.
Lee
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