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2 Responses to “FileMaker Software and Mac OS X Leopard”

1. Stephen K. Knight Says:
   October 27th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

   New FileMaker Update October 27, 2007

   FileMaker has issued a statement regarding compatibility of FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced running on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

   In the statement below, we describe the two known issues, and announce our intent to make a downloadable compatibility update available Nov.19, 2007.

   The impact of one of these issues varies a lot depending on your country. In countries where the impact is lower, such as the United States, our statement says “FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced generally run on Leopard although there are two known issues.”

   In countries where the impact is high, our statement says, “FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced generally will not run on Leopard in many parts of the world although there are important exceptions specifically for France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.”

   Both complete statements (which otherwise are identical) are included below, as are other important details.

   In the United States, our statement begins:

   FileMaker announces date for Mac OS X Leopard compatibility update

   We are very excited about the release of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).
   FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced generally run on Leopard although there are two known issues. We are targeting a downloadable update to be available on November 19, 2007. Please subscribe to FileMaker News for the latest on update availability.

   Here are the known issues with FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9
   Advanced:
   1. The Instant Web Publishing feature does not work.
   2. On Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), each language version of FileMaker Pro
   9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced works only when the Mac OS System Preference “International Formats Region” is set to a specific region.
   For example, the English language version of FileMaker works only when the region is United States. It does not work when the region is United Kingdom, or Australia, or France, or any other region.

   FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced currently do not deploy properly on Leopard. We are working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced but do not have an estimated availability date at this time. Again, subscribe to FileMaker News for information on updates.

   We have not tested earlier (pre-FileMaker 9) versions of FileMaker software on Mac OS X Leopard and do not intend to release updates for earlier versions.

   Outside the U.S., our statement reads:

   FileMaker announces date for Mac OS X Leopard compatibility update

   We are very excited about the release of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).
   FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced generally will not run on Leopard in many parts of the world although there are important exceptions specifically for France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.
   We are targeting a downloadable update to be available on 19th November 2007. Please subscribe to FileMaker News for the latest on update availability.

   Here are the known issues with FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9
   Advanced:
   1. The Instant Web Publishing feature does not work.
   2. On Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), each language version of FileMaker Pro
   9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced works only when the Mac OS System Preference “International Formats Region” is set to a specific region.
   For example, the English language version of FileMaker works only when the region is United States. It does not work when the region is United Kingdom, or Australia, or France, or any other region.

   FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced currently do not deploy properly on Leopard. We are working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced but do not have an estimated availability date at this time. Again, subscribe to FileMaker News for information on updates.

   We have not tested earlier (pre-FileMaker 9) versions of FileMaker software on Mac OS X Leopard and do not intend to release updates for earlier versions.

   Additional details:
   “The “click here for more information” link takes you to the knowledge base article. Here are the key additional details that will be in the
   article:

   On Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), each language version of FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced works only when the Mac OS System Preference “International Formats Region” is set to a specific region.
   Here is a matrix of the language and region combinations that work.
   All other combinations cause FileMaker to quit if you open or create a database.

   Language Format Region

   English United States
   Français France
   Italiano Italia
   Deutsch Deutschland
   Svenska Sverige
   Nederlands Nederland
   Español España
   Japanese Japan
   Traditional Chinese Taiwan and China P.R.C.
   Simplified Chinese Taiwan and China P.R.C.”

   I hope this is helpful to everyone.

2. Stephen K. Knight Says:
   November 1st, 2007 at 9:53 am

   FileMaker has released FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 and FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 Advanced, available now via a downloadable update.

   The 9.0v2 update provides compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard as described below, and other features, and is recommended for all users.

   Here is a list of other fixes in the 9.0v2 update that developers will be most interested in:

   Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard):
   The application no longer crashes when creating files if the system language and region do not match.

   General Fixes:
   Mac OS X: Get(SystemVersion) now returns the correct version on Mac OS X operating systems ending with double digit revision numbers, i.e.
   10.4.10.

   The database consistency check initiated on launch will no longer incorrectly report that a database is damaged for some databases that can be opened and used without any problems.

   Printing Fixes:
   The update addresses issues which cause the application to crash when a page range is specified.

   Relationships:
   A relationship with a global field now returns all related records if the value of the other key is empty.

   For a complete list of fixes please refer to the updater Read Me:
   http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/readme_fmp9v2.pdf

   FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 and FileMaker Pro 9.0v2 Advanced Leopard update
   downloads:
   http://www.filemaker.com/support/downloads/index.html

   Please note that this update does not fix issues with the FileMaker
   Pro 9 Instant Web Publishing (IWP) feature running on Leopard. We
   intend to make IWP compatible with Leopard in an update expected in
   December 2007.

   We expect to deliver a Leopard compatibility update for our Server
   products in early 2008. FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9
   Advanced currently do not deploy properly on Leopard. In the meantime,
   FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced clients running on
   Leopard do work with FileMaker Server and Server Advanced running on
   Tiger or earlier versions of Mac OS X.

   For info on earlier versions of FileMaker software and Mac OS X
   Leopard:
   http://filemaker.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/filemaker.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6702

   http://filemaker.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/filemaker.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6703

   http://filemaker.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/filemaker.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6649

   6702—Updater ReadMe
   6703—Article re: older versions of FileMaker running on Leopard
   6649—New info on FileMaker products and Leopard

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