…which is all rather different from the *Mickey Mouse* FM Mobile 8
that's limited to a paltry 5K records and, as far as i have found so
far, ONE table of a file?
And the most basic of layouts on the PDA.
And 4(?) field types (not that you could do anything with them if
there were more)
the only thing it does seem to have going for it is that it syncs OK
- fine if your DB only contains one table and a few records ie: a list!
i guess there are probably work-arounds and subtleties i haven't
discovered.
that might all be fine if FM mobile was priced according to what it
could actually deliver - but it ain't.
On 24/02/2006, at 8:23 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
You don't say what version of FileMaker, but there is a huge
difference between Filemaker 7/8 and all previous versions. Rather
than the number of records, the key thing is file size. In
Filemaker 6 (and back as far as 3, I think), the maximum size a
Filemaker file can be is 2 Gb, so the maximum number of records is
whatever will fit within that space. With Filemaker 7, the maximum
file size jumped to the order of terabytes (the number 8 is in my
mind, but I'm not sure as I write this. It's very big, anyway) so
the number of records becomes pretty much moot. You'll run out of
hard drive space long before you fill the file with records.
In any case, regardless of the Filemaker version, with the
structure of the file you describe (6 text fields) I seriously
doubt you could fill a Filemaker file with records in a lifetime
given normal use.
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